November 4, 2007 at 2:11 pm

Thanks Virginia for this VERY IMPORTANT info about where the world stands currently on the fulfillment of the MDG’s by 2015.

It is exactly info like this which we can use to further our own awareness of the details of what is currently being done and what more needs to be done to truly make extreme poverty history.

I will use the info contained in this report many times in the future.~

Take very good care, my dear friends at ONE. Blessings for you and yours always.

AS ONE, debbie

November 5, 2007 at 3:53 am

These two lists certainly reveal how significantly politics drives US distribution of aid to other nations, but there’s a much larger issue that’s missed altogether by policies on foreign aid as expressed in these kinds of reports, and practiced by well-meaning organizations such as ONE.

The earth’s resources are being stretched to their very limits trying to sustain 6 billion humans. Distributing wealth more equally will raise the standards of living of the world’s poor, but only for a short time.

Conservative estimates project that the human population will rise to 9 billion by the year 2050, and the earth simply will not be able to support an acceptable standard of living for many millions of people – no matter how evenly the world’s wealth is distributed. And you can be certain that when water and food become truly scarce, the privileged and wealthy of the world will go to great lengths to claim what’s left for themselves. The gap between the haves and the have-nots will become wider than you can imagine.

The human population rises by 1 million every 4 days, and there simply can be no meaningful solution to the poverty problem that does not include family planning and restraints on population growth.