I can’t help thinking that if the world applied as much energy, money and motivation to ending world hunger (or poverty, or climate change) as it has to fighting one tiny virus, we would be living in a completely different world!
With international travel and the linked economies of today’s world, this pandemic is considered to be a global problem. But the push to vaccinate is largely going on in the “first world”. More than half the world, the poorest of us, remain untreated. If it is truly a global pandemic, then why do the rich countries only take care of themselves?
We already know there is enough food to feed everyone on the planet. No one needs to go hungry. But apparently we can’t figure out how to develop distribution routes to get food to everyone, so the rich countries continue to destroy food and the poor continue to go without. Seems hard to believe!
Poverty and the level of education remain linked and yet we can’t find a way to educate or teach skills to all the children of the world. We have the remote technology to link teachers and students anywhere. Why aren’t we doing this?
Climate change is the same. Government and big polluters say it is too expensive for them to change their infrastructure to save the planet but whole sectors of the economy were destroyed and an estimated 6 trillion dollars was spent so far on fighting a virus which continues to mutate and will remain with us.
Why do we keep saying that something is impossible when really it is just a choice to do nothing.
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