Thought Assignments encourage you to think about something other than yourself. They encourage you to argue with yourself and others around you. A thinker is not afraid of his own thoughts. I urge you to speak up. No one can hear you if you are not speaking.Nearly half of people in this world live on 2.50 cents a day. This week's thought assignment is simple: why is this? But more importantly, how and why do we go about our daily lives without a second thought towards our fellow man and their suffering? Why must people live like this:
- Almost half the world — over 3 billion people — live on less than $2.50 a day.
- The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the 41 Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (567 million people) is less than the wealth of the world’s 7 richest people combined.
- Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names.
- Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn’t happen.
- 1 billion children live in poverty (1 in 2 children in the world). 640 million live without adequate shelter, 400 million have no access to safe water, 270 million have no access to health services. 10.6 million (nearly as many as in the Holocaust) died in 2003 before they reached the age of 5 (or roughly 29,000 children per day).
Slum located in India.
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Monday, March 23, 2009
Thought Assignment # 7
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Other than collective insanity shared by everyone and enforced by some outside source,I can think of no other reason why the world remains as it is year after year. In the east it is rationaized as "Karma",but that doesn't explain it. In the west it has religious, political,and racial rationalizations, but no explanations. Perhaps, it is an inherited brain pattern;
a purely human pattern developed by thousands of years
of survival. Can we change it?
We don't know...but we must keep trying. Count Sneaky
You are right. Can we change it? We do not know, but we must keep trying.
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