most of us probably live in modern societies with running clean water in our homes, warm beds and clean floors. We have a supermarket around the corner selling us a broad variety of cheap food and drinkables, have all sorts of techological assistance and especially, of course, internet.
Now, I know I have set off a discussion in the Religion Forum, but the discussion also has a social aspect - how can we get people on a roughly comparable standard of living, without falling into the trap of communism, but so that people can avoid starvation and poverty?
Isn’t the abatement of debt in the poorer countries the first thing we have to do? Or how do you see this problem.
Heh, with all due respect, sir. This post sounds like a Miss Universe finalist question. :
If you become Miss Universe 2005, what would you do to end the world hunger, solve population increase, and promote world literacy?
Miss Africa: I believe that AIDS is not at all that bad if you think about it. It solves both the problem of shortage of food and overpopulation. As far as literacy, well…dead people don’t really need to learn how to read and write, do they? So, yes, we have AIDS.
Miss China : Oh, we can use people for sweat shop factories in New York, so overpopulation is not a problem. Look at India and my own country, China, we are now the top low wage countries in the world and multinationals are coming to us. As far as world hunger, I think part of the problem is that there are just way too many animals on the endangered species list. If the international treaty for animal protection would just allow these animals to be hunted….
And uh, if one does not need literacy, why should he or she be forced to read and write? Everyone must be content in their “own placeâ€.
Miss Colombia: The cocaine and marijuana industry provides billions of dollars in revenue. It could provide food, literacy, and curtail population increase in the whole of South America. But the efforts of the international alliance for anti-narcotics have derailed most of these potentials. The highly trained special squads have hunted down many of the drug lords and mafias that operated many of Colombia’s deep forest plantation and processing warehouses. So, my feeling is that international relief funds must replace those potential revenues that have been lost due to the anti-narcotics operations.
Your statements are as cold as an arctic wind, equally as biting and could help guarantee that WWIII is not far off. But then again I suppose that with a WW many of your problems would be solved from your perspective.
I truly hope that the people who claim to have been abducted by aliens are are wrong - because if there is intelligence out there, they could abduct someone like you and decide to dump the whole lot of us into the garbage can.
Sir, I apologize if I did not make my intent clear the first time. I wrote a satire to illuminate world events. It is designed to hit on readers’ sensitivities about things that we take for granted, or place at the back of our mind thinking we’ll get to them later, whenever, someday, or maybe we just don’t have the time, or motivation to think about.
Now I know how some satirists feel when they say “I tried to hit them in the heart, but I got their stomach instead.â€
I will include in this post a plea that maybe we should stop shooting down the “messengersâ€, who have the time to observe and report back to us what they see in their minds, their hearts, their souls.
The name Arctic is a tribute to the last untouched (virgin) wilderness that’s left on this wonderful world we live in. Soon they are going to be just fuzzy memories. A tiny speck in our imagination, their meaning and beauty lost forever. That is, if we are still here should the inevitable happen. I will miss them so much. The Antarctica, the Alaskan wilderness, the Congo basin forest, the tropical rainforests.
Add to this the increasing disrespect for people in general, the insensitivities of people in the First World, the ever decreasing valuation of human worth, couple with the ever increasing emphasis on accumulation and hording of material things.
If, indeed, my statements in the first post are “as cold an arctic wind†to you, then my belief is that I fail to enlighten you, for even a little. And it saddens me.
