1 billion people are starving

Wonder how many get thrown in prison for asking for freedom of speech or basic democratic rights

No I just do not agree with evil dictatorships like China who oppress control and bully their people.

I'm not naive, I know that this won't change the world, but surely its just a little something?

Sign the petition!

http://www.1billionhungry.org/xarcul/

Environmentalists use the metaphor of the earth as a "spaceship" in trying to persuade countries, industries and people to stop wasting and polluting our natural resources. Since we all share life on this planet, they argue, no single person or institution has the right to destroy, waste, or use more than a fair share of its resources.

But does everyone on earth have an equal right to an equal share of its resources? The spaceship metaphor can be dangerous when used by misguided idealists to justify suicidal policies for sharing our resources through uncontrolled immigration and foreign aid. In their enthusiastic but unrealistic generosity, they confuse the ethics of a spaceship with those of a lifeboat.

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So here we sit, say 50 people in our lifeboat. To be generous, let us assume it has room for 10 more, making a total capacity of 60. Suppose the 50 of us in the lifeboat see 100 others swimming in the water outside, begging for admission to our boat or for handouts. We have several options: we may be tempted to try to live by the Christian ideal of being "our brother's keeper," or by the Marxist ideal of "to each according to his needs." Since the needs of all in the water are the same, and since they can all be seen as "our brothers," we could take them all into our boat, making a total of 150 in a boat designed for 60. The boat swamps, everyone drowns. Complete justice, complete catastrophe.

1 billion people are starving?

These stats are severly innacurate, technically under the government criteria, the amount our family is earning of benefits classes us aas " in poverty ".... Yet I can eat over 3000 calories a day for the gym, pay for the gym membership, pay for travel tickets, go out with friends, and buy the **** I want....

I have to agree on this.

Signing a petition wont do anything. Giving money to a charity will help, but it wont solve it. You simply cannot solve world hunger, as that would involve liberating third world countries which are what keep us afloat.

It's Darwinism at it's best, unfortunately it's just the luck of the draw.

However, 'absolutely poor' people having kids is something I cannot fathom.

"We have no money, we cannot feed ourselves. I know, let's ****!"

Yeah, capitalism sucks huh? Corporate and economic globalisation does NOTHING to help third-world countries, yet China manage to pull over 1,000,000 of their inhabitants out of poverty every month.

So Britian beats China. How many people in the third-world does China lift out of poverty?

But I don't want the UN to make it their top priority.. I'd rather they make space exploration their top priority, or fusion energy research, or any kind of renewable energy really. "Hunger" is such a vague thing to 'solve'.



Where would you rather live though, China or Somalia? Surely you aren't so blind you can't see the positives in China even if you don't directly agree with the governing style.

Clearly you are a fool.

No one in Britain starves. People in China starve.
You seem to act like Britain has the responsibility of the world.

So Britian beats China. How many people in the third-world does China lift out of poverty?