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Previous: The Greatest Challenge the Human Race has Ever Faced - and Your Important Part in This | All blog entries Coming Attractions: Tuesday, March 6, 2007 The Frustrations of Getting People to See the Obvious (At Least It Seems Obvious to Me :) We have the resources to end global hunger and poverty. No one has to give up anything of real value. Everyone will gain from a more just, peaceful and sustainable world. We're only asking people to match the previous success of the Marshall Plan. Yet only a minority of people quickly embrace this idea. Why? What are we going to do about it? Latest additions: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 The Idealism of Youth vs. the Cold Realities of Growing Up Growing up in the 60s and 70s, I remember how much I cared about the way the world was going. I was really angry with the shortsighted selfishness and conformity of those in power. I wanted to change the whole world. So did many other young people I knew... Now many of them have corporate jobs. They're living large, driving huge, gas guzzling SUVs and living in resource wasting, cookie-cutter, supersized McMansions, built where woods or farmland used to be. What went wrong? Good questions. The answers could be even better... The role of human instincts It takes a stretch of imagination to relate to seemingly abstract, global issues. This despite the fact that everyone knows from schoolbook history - and after 9/11 from the rise in terrorism - what happens half a world away can come around to bite us. The "good" instincts And it's just not fair that 4 percent of the world's population - the USA - consumes more than 25 percent of its resources, while 1.2 billion people live in extreme poverty. Especially when there's plenty we can do about, using low-cost programs that already help hundreds of millions of people lift themselves from poverty. Here's a good way to put your best instincts to work: Join us today! You Can Help End Global Hunger and Poverty by 2012 More ways you can Help Yourself
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