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Last year more than 34,000 children
died due to starvation, malnutrition,
or from preventable diseases; per day. Just because we can't see
them doesn't mean they're not there.
Guess what. Oxford economist
Donald Hay has pointed out that a mere 2% of the world's grain harvest would be
enough, if shared, to erase the problem of hunger and malnutrition around the
world...
Also:
This,
that, the other. You should stop doing these things:
1) Stop spending money at Wal-mart, Mc Donald's, and malls in
general. For some reasons why, click
here, or
here, or
here, or here. To find out
about some other poorly run, and dirty companies go
here. Your money is not being wisely spent from anyone's count.
Do you really need another pair of shoes?
2) Quit eating so much meat, seeing as there is a direct
correlation between how much meat we eat and how hungry those in India and
Sub-Saharan Africa are. For some info click
here or
here.
3) Turn off the television. Remove it from your life.
You will find that you no longer have the insane drive to purchase things,
and you no longer see yourself as a consumer, but as a person. To find
out more go here, or
here, or
here.
4) Give more of your money away. North Americans make up
less than 6% of the world's population, but we use over 60% of the planet's
resources. One seventh of the world is living in abject poverty, while we
are being made ill from our excesses. One seventh of the world lives (and
dies) on less than a dollar a day.
God bless America? He already has. How about we share it a little?
Facts and statistics taken
from Ronald
Sider's Rich Christians in an age of Hunger
Also... things go on that Americans have no idea
about... Violent conflict is on the increase
all over the world, both in terms of wars between nations and violent clashes
between the classes. While war is waged in the Middle East we also see a growing
tendency to use more brutal measures against the workers in struggle.
- see www.marxist.com for the full article
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