POVERTY

There are enough poverty deaths for a full-sized crime against humanity: as many every seven months as perished in the Nazi death camps

Thomas Pogge, in World Poverty and Human Rights

But...

• because they happen out of sight;
• because everyone is prepared to feel sorry for the poor but not to reduce their own standard of living;
• because we grudge others our 'hard-earned' cash, although we have earned it far less hard than those who have earned nothing;
• because we feel it is only 'kind' to hand over any of our luxuries, and not an obligation;
• because we feel no responsibility for people beyond our borders;
• because we feel no responsibility for an immoral world order;
• because we cannot begin to imagine what it is to starve, slowly, painfully, while the privileged world battles with the problem of obesity;
• because we do not even try to imagine;
• because we think our contribution will make no difference;
• because we do not bother to think.

We just sit and watch. And it continues...

• roughly 18 million deaths per year from poverty-related causes
• 50,000 per day
• 2,000 per hour
• 34 per minute
• 1 every 2 seconds.

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Nuggets to make us think. See them all together on this page.