Vietnam needs to get wise about being healthy and wealthy
By Mark A. Ashwill July 28, 2021 | 07:08 am GMT+7
It has been my privilege to live in Vietnam for 16 years, nearly 40 percent of my adult life.
Mark A. Ashwill
I am a global citizen without national affiliation who sees the goodness and even greatness, past, present, and future, of every country.
I also care deeply about those issues and areas – sometimes openly discussed, other times lurking just beneath the rhetorical surface, and still others not something to be spoken of in public - that are in desperate need of improvement.
One of the most pressing problems in the world that you and I share are widespread air and water pollution. These are not academic or long-term issues but rather existential and immediate ones that affect the people and natural world of Vietnam in the here and now.