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1 year ago 7
Awesome Work!
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1 year ago 7
Fantastic!
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With sharing the world's resources there will be world justice. With world justice there will be world peace. With world peace there will be a world left. Feed the little ones. The world's future is in humanity's hands. The problem is in our own world's backyard.
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Not meaning to be cynical, but as soon as a few more billion have enough money to buy cars and use more energy the poverty issue will be the last one we think about.
The planet isn't big enough to handle all of it's population living well. We will also run out of food and energy quickly and it will be harder to adapt as much of the money will have been spent on the issue of poverty.
First we need to be able to handle everyone on the planet living well.
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Tony Blair !!
Are you joking!!!
What has this liar done to Iraq!!!
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this is so ambiguous!
there needs to be focused goals
eg.
stop debt on foreign loans....
This just justifies "tecnocrats" "expertcrats' to talk, but never really achieve it...
No offence to Hugh, his heart is in the right place for sure....
But try the World Social Forum in Brazil, not the World Economic forum in Switzerland....
Read some John Pilger about the danger if these entertaining/mass media efforts to "stop poverty"...
peace
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what are you doing? do you live in luxury compared to other. do you have a disposable income.
what do you spend that on, movies, clothes, expensive fast food, entertainment. ?
or stopping poverty.
'Let deeds not words be your adorning'.
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1 year ago 2
atleast tell your friends about this video... lol
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1 year ago 2
love the comment. great job. much love
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what are the rich doing? Do they really need all the luxury in the world? How much more shall the disparity between the rich and poor will grow..
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1 year ago 2
Have a read of a book called "The Bottom Billion" by Paul Collier. It will provide you great insight in to how we could begin to address the complexity of the myriad of issues plaguing the bottom billion.
The reason why the "HOW" has not been found is because the answer is not simple, nor is it easy to achieve. No one who understands this would ever say so.
The "HOW" will be achieved by perseverance and a drive to achieve sustainable change.
It is a complex issue, but it can be done.
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1 year ago 4
if there were 100 people on earth if you had a bed and a closet your in the top 75% of the richest people in the world
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It will never work! Big Ideas for a big problems never works! A big problem like Poverty in Africa and for that matter anywhere starts with just 1 person. I've seen Band aid, Live aid Bono aid and the list goes on. Big Ideas like this mean big business & it will be lucky if 10% gets to the poor and needy. But along the way the organizers will make heaps & heaps and argue heaps. If you want to give find a Missionary who lives in the poverty and give to him or her...there are plenty around.
Agreed - there's no one big idea that will end extreme poverty.
Extreme poverty is complex and nuanced, and so our actions in response to it need to be complex and nuanced.
Our presentation introduces some of these ideas, and sets out a framework for how we can support the world's poor to solve the problems themselves, one at a time.
In the book Dead Aid, former World Bank economist Moyo describes the inherent problems of continually providing aid to Africa, and the cycle of dependency condemning third world countries to long-term poverty instead of empowering them to engage in constructive nation building. We are not the first generation that could have eradicated extreme poverty so I hope we are the ones that can make significant inroads to eradicate the agricultural subsidies that have kept aid unproductive up till now.
Great observation - agricultural subsidies and other barriers certainly limit the effectiveness of aid, and our ability to end extreme poverty depends not just on how much aid we give, but how we engage with Africa and those in extreme poverty in all regards.
For us as everyday citizens, it means that ending poverty is about doing more than making donations, important though that is. The products we buy, the media we consume, the time we give and the choices we make in our democracy all matter.
Donate all the money you like, it wont get rid of poverty. (you may notice poverty exists in "first world" countries too) Charities and Fund raising is a band-aid solution and although it doesn't solve the problem, it does make some people and organisations very rich. If you want to end poverty, invest and build infrastructure and educate the population... Unfortunately for them, there is more money to be made by deliberately keeping "developing countries" poor.
Activist =/= Action
Inequality will always exist - there will always be people who are richer and poorer.
But, in a world with so much prosperity, there is no reason - ethical, social, political or economic - that 1.4 billion people continue to live in extreme poverty, or on less than the purchasing power of US$1.25 a day.
It's this sort of poverty that we talk about in the presentation, and it's this sort of poverty that we have the opportunity to end within a lifetime.