Love not war
I am thinking about a child dying of diarrhoea in a hut in Mali.I am thinking about a child robbed of opportunity because no one can afford to educate him.
I am thinking about a child starving to death -- starving to death, how is that even fucking possible in a world where we are growing corn to put in our cars -- because her mother does not have two grains of rice to rub together.
I am thinking about your priorities.
It is a tragedy that we have never found a way to love each other. We measure it not in dollars, not even in the billions, but in the lives that went for nothing.
It is a tragedy that we have never learned that learning is the road to salvation for our planet. Ignorance drowns us -- literally, when our seas have risen and we die fighting over the high ground. Literate, affluent populations in the third world would not choke it with overpopulation, would not destroy each other in pointless, mindless wars. Who knows what potential we are wasting?
I am thinking about a mother's crying deep into the night on Bubaque island. I'll never forget that sound. It seems to me it is the song of our world: the sound of a lost tomorrow, waste and pain.
posted by Dr Zen @ 7:11 am
5 Comments:
Ok so we prevent hunger and starvation on a global scale, and bring Africa's mortality rate in-line with developed country's. How is that a sustainable action? financial it would be easy in the short term, but as the population grew resources (no matter how much money was provided) simply could not keep pace with the population growth. Can you think of a solution? The only solution i can think of is a global cull, and i truly believe its going to happen in our children's life time. The wheels are in motion.
The papers are full of whining about how we are not replacing ourselves in the rich West. That's an outcome of affluence, and is trivially easy to encourage around the world.
Hilariously simplistic, when you consider that life sustaining land mass in the poorest areas of the world is actually shrinking. Also the resources to create and sustain affluence doesn't exist. If it were possible what about the environment? or is it convenient for you to forget that.
Assume we have the will, and are willing to do what it takes.
We can easily feed a higher population. At least double that we feed now. Sure, you won't have too many steaks, but that's a price we have to pay. Yes, arable land in the third world is shrinking, but in the West it is increasingly set aside. We could grow a lot more.
The resources to create a reasonable level of affluence exist. We have cornered them though.
I'm not suggesting we can simply carry on as we are, and lift the rest up to our level.
No, I'm not forgetting about the environment. But I'm not sure that I agree with you that the world's extremely poor must pay the price for our exhausting it.
Assume we have the will, and are willing to do what it takes.
Exactly! the above does not exist amongst the people that have the power to make the difference. The main culprits for the poverty in Africa today are the corrupt Governments.
The aid that is being given now is simply easing the *haves* conscious and prolonging the pain.
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