Saturday, March 24, 2007

World Poverty Under The Microscope

Never before in history have the poor financed the rich on such a massive scale and paid so dearly for their servitude as today.
- John Pilger

There is something profoundly wrong with a world in which the 400 highest income earners in the United States make as much money in a year as the entire population of 20 African nations with more than 300 million people . . . . and where the five richest men in the world have accumulated wealth equaling 168 billion dollars. According to the World Poverty Report, the gap between the affluent and the poor is growing larger every day and the despair that accompanies poverty is seen by many scholars as the primary cause of many of the world's most serious problems. Terrorism, disease, war, political unrest, hunger, malnutrition, polluted water, racial intolerance, crime, drug and alcohol abuse and suicide all can be traced to poverty. Nothing will test the moral foundation of humanity more than how mankind addresses this issue and nothing will be more important to our physical and spiritual survival.

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