[rael-science] Why Are We Doing This To The Children Of The World?‏

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Why Are We Doing This To
The Children Of The World?
27,000 Starvation Deaths Daily?


By Frosty Wooldridge
12-28-12

http://rense.com/general95/whyarewe.html

In this modern era, we fly jet planes around the planet in a matter of
hours. We create Smart Phones that take pictures and post them on our
Facebook pages in a matter of seconds. We pay billions of dollars to
watch gridiron behemoths race toward the end zone. We buy high-powered
cars to hurl our obese bodies to the local grocery store to buy more
food to stuff into our mouths.

Meanwhile, our politicians speak with soaring oratory to make the
world better for all human beings. At the same time, our leaders
create wars all over the world that devour trillions of dollars in
bombs, soldiers, rockets, planes and armaments.

But through all our riches, our words, our human nobility in 180 plus
countries around the world, we cannot figure out how to stop the
starvation deaths of 27,000 children every 24 hours. How did we
advance this far as the human race only to watch that many children
die needlessly and endlessly around the world?

At the end of 2012, let’s encourage our church leaders and government
leaders, and people of the world to address the fundamental need to
feed the children of the planet instead of preparing for or making
wars around the world. While we in the United States mourn the mayhem
against the children of Newtown, Connecticut, we need to understand
and solve the fact that the world suffers 27,000 “Newtown’s” every
single day of the year.

With that in mind, let’s propose solutions to world hunger for 2013.
Let’s solve the great scourges of mankind: poverty, illiteracy,
ignorance, disease, unemployment, homelessness, inadequate sanitation,
low social mobility, and exclusion.

For example, in India, 1,000 children die every day of diarrhea,
dysentery and other water borne diseases. (Source:
www.populationmedia.org) Yet, India does absolutely nothing to solve
that problem while it adds another 11 million net gain to its already
bloviated population of 1.2 billion impoverished people. Not to
mention its destroyed environment!

27,000 children die each day from needless poverty

Dr. Webster Tarpley, author of man books, said, “The tragic condition
of humanity is perhaps most dramatically reflected in the fact that
between 22,000 and 27,000 children die each day due to poverty,
largely in the form of starvation, malnutrition, and diseases like
diarrhea which can be cured for a few pennies. The upper end of this
range corresponds to one needless childhood death caused by poverty
every three seconds. Total needless childhood deaths from poverty,
these data suggest, must be approaching at least 10 million per year -
a yearly total which by itself rivals any of the great genocides of
world history. Of the 2.2 billion children who live in today’s world,
one billion live in poverty. This is the estimate from the most recent
United Nations Human Development Report.”

Not only that, but Time Magazine reported that 8.1 million adults die
annually from starvation. Total humans dying of starvation: 18 million
annually.

While the United States spends trillions of dollars annually on war,
3.1 billion human beings live on less than $2.00 per day. That same
3.1 billion lack a toilet or sanitation facilities of any kind. It’s
beyond sickening that we see this kind of condition of humanity in
2012 with all our talents as a species.

“About 2.6 billion people or 40% of the world’s population are
struggling to subsist on less than two dollars a day,” said Tarpley.
“It is a world in which a total of 3 billion people or 50% of the
world total must try to get along on less than $2.50 per day. For all
the talk of a growing middle class made possible by globalization, 80%
of humanity receives less than $10 per day.”

Almost a billion malnourished worldwide

According to the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization in
Rome, “There are in 2012 some 925 million persons experiencing hunger
and malnutrition. Some 578 million of the hungry live in the Asian and
Pacific countries, followed by 239 million malnourished in sub-Saharan
Africa.”

At the same time, Americans spend $50 million per jet plane and
several billions of dollars to build aircraft carriers annually that
they don’t need to fight non-existent adversaries.

Ironically, the Catholic Church spends all its money worldwide to stop
any form of birth control or family planning. In his brilliant book,
Underdevelopment is a State of Mind by Lawrence E. Harrison, he shows
where Catholic-dominated countries suffer massive child birth rates,
grinding poverty and hopelessness beyond imagination. The Catholic
Church dominates in Haiti, Mexico and most of Latin America. Result:
accelerating poverty to match accelerating birth rates.

Much the same holds true in Islamic countries like Pakistan, Egypt and
Bangladesh. Those ancient religions refuse to embrace birth control or
abortion—thus, women die and children starve into that 10 million
children death factor annually. Additionally, they suffer horrific
misery up to the point of death.

1.1 billion humans lack clean water

“Fully 1.1 billion people in developing countries today lack adequate
access to clean water,” said Tarpley. “One third of all children, or
640 million kids, exist without adequate shelter. One fifth of all
children, or a total of 400 million, do not have access to safe water.
One seventh of all children, or 270 million, are denied access to
adequate health services.”

Political instability in Egypt and much of Africa

Africa closes in on 1 billion human beings inhabiting that vast
continent. However, demographers state that the current rate of human
growth will create 3.1 billion Africans by the end of the century.

In Egypt at 82 million people and headed for 150 million within
decades, their form of birth control equals digging another canal off
the Nile River to create more shanty tents and human misery. No one
takes responsibility for reality.

At some point, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Mormonism, the Catholic
Church and all other religions must join minds or hands or whatever it
takes—to come to terms with human overpopulation that creates the 18
million starvation deaths annually. They must advocate and endorse
birth control and family planning. They must un-stick themselves from
the 1st century or 6th century and even B.C. eras in humanity’s march
into the 21st century.

Otherwise, all those civilizations will see horrific human die-off,
unspeakable misery and continued degradation of our planet home. We
cannot get around it with faith, hope or prayers. Mother Nature, aka,
God, Allah, the Great Spirit, or whatever you call the Creator will
unmercifully respond to our overwhelming numbers. It won’t be pretty.

We can change course by changing our actions for a plausible future
for all of humanity.

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Jack Alpert PhD
Director: Stanford Knowledge Integration Laboratory



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"Ethics" is simply a last-gasp attempt by deist conservatives and
orthodox dogmatics to keep humanity in ignorance and obscurantism,
through the well tried fermentation of fear, the fear of science and
new technologies.

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