When a child is starving, a family may not be able to think about long-term sustainability or damage to ecosystems that support endangered species.

Early marriage is most prevalent in communities suffering deep, chronic poverty.

If you educate a girl, you educate a nation.

The environmental movement could do a better job incorporating the message about the connection between poverty and environmental degradation, and building that message at the grassroots level.

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

You can't marginalize more than half of the globe's population and expect to see any meaningful solutions to the problems that ail the world.

As many as half of Ethiopias girls become wives before becoming adults. But Ethiopia is also a place where lasting solutions to child marriage are starting to make a difference.