The riches of the earth provide us with a true Garden of Eden- generally human life could be of superlative quality- so especially in comparison with the dismal reality of today. The comparison of what the physical and spiritual comfort level for all of us could be- with the situation as it today is- should, after reflection, be persuasive to anyone with an abiding compassion. In our time, more than one billion people live under-nourished each day in an utter and abject poverty. And most of these hungry people are children (!) all the while as our enormously wealthy capitalist culture abides self-satisfied.
Obviously, despite an earth of such abundant resources, our global economic system has failed to meet the needs of the world's population levels. Early on, two significant points should be noted- first, this present economic system is inherently unable to provide for the welfare of the billions living in underdeveloped nation-states; and second, no economic system can make this provision at the present increasingly explosive levels of population growth.
There are simply too many people in the world today, and the condition of want and privation for the millions and millions stands now only to get ever worse.
So, what then is to be done to counter this massive suffering- this massive degradation of human and life dignity?
Kalinzskii
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