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...weeks leading up to the London bombings this summer, Africa captured the world??s attention. With the hope of pressuring the G8 leaders to seriously address African poverty at the Gleneagales summit, the “Make Poverty History” campaign and its U.S. counterpart, “ONE,” launched a multi-million-dollar international publicity blitz of commercials, concerts, and wristbands designed to raise awareness—not money—for the poor of Africa. As Tom Hanks said at the end of the ONE television spot...
...under-nourished, making the region “worse off nutritionally today than it was 30 years ago,” according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. These Africans cannot survive the illusion that the affluent lifestyles of people in the so-called “developed world?? have no connections to the extreme hunger and poverty that have become part of their everyday lives...
...world??s resources are not a Malthusian pie, but they are absurdly distributed. Consider the following: Europeans spend $11 billion per year on ice cream—$2 billion more than it would cost to provide clean water and safe sewers for the world's population. Moreover, Americans and Europeans spend $17 billion per year on pet food—$4 billion more than the additional amount needed annually to provide basic health and nutrition to the whole world...
...you’re reading this, chances are that you (like me) are part of the richest fifth of the world??s people who consume 86 percent of the world??s goods and services. (The poorest fifth consumes just 1.3 percent.) Our current lifestyle is simply not compatible with African development. To paraphrase Lamont University Professor Amartya Sen, who is also a Nobel Prize-winning economist, the problem of poverty is not one of resources, but of their allocation. There needs to be a reallocation and prioritization of the world??s resources?...
...obviously, anybody who has seen my movies, including those early movies, knows that I was always after bigger game than that.” And luckily for his audiences, Cronenberg is now skilled enough to balance his two strains in a manner that makes him one of the world??s most unique and interesting hunters...