Increasingly, we are living in a world with a truly global economy. Years ago, we could look at people suffering far away and think, oh, what a pity. We might never feel the effects. This is no longer true. The key word today is interdependence.
Markets rise and fall together.
Companies expand to other countries or fall away like dinosaurs. If we believe, in this new world, that the fate of another country does not effect our own, we are foolish. Our fates are bound together. In order for nations to soar, their people must be vibrant, self-sufficient, innovative. I submit to you that iodine deficiency is not simply stealing our children, although this is surely a great consequence.