1.12.2009

On planet Earth

Six billion people on the planet. If we reduce that population to a one hundred people, proportionately,

57 of those people come from Asia

21 from Europe

14 from North and South America

8 from Africa

49 would be women

51 would be men

68 would still not be able to read and write

6 of those people would own and control 50% of the world’s wealth, all of those six people would
be US citizens

1 of those people would have just been born

1 of those people is about to die

Only 1 of those people have been to college.

How do you see the world? Maybe in your world, almost everyone goes to college. But on planet earth, one in one hundred people will have a college experience.

On planet earth…

One third of the world’s population is dying from a lack of bread.

One third is dying from lack of justice.

One third is dying from over-eating

I got this from this blog and just thought it was interesting. We're very self-centered when it comes to things we do and do not have. We have very unique points of view on what "poor" means. Even the poorest of us in America are richer then a lot of people.
Should we feel bad about it? Maybe. Maybe we should at least feel something, anything at all about the fact that we wash our cars with more clean water then some countries have to drink.
I don't think feeling bad is going to solve the problem. I know that a lot of you feel empathy for people less fortunate then yourselves. I know that several of you do things, several things in fact. But the fact remains:

Nothing will change until we DO something. Until we step out in faith and boldness and say enough, enough is enough is enough.
What are you doing? What could you do? What's stopping you from doing it?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I heard a blurb the other day about how part of the economic crisis is due to the fact that Americans had such a high standard of living that it was impossible to sustain.

I wish I knew where I heard that, because I found it very intriguing and want to hear the rest of the "case".

You are very right though. We are selfish. I've been trying to work on that...