What can we do to make poverty history? Why bother?

Question

Bono wants the world to get involved with ending extreme poverty in the world citing the 9000 dead in Africa every day. Well what exactly is the world to do with the additional 3 million people a year who survive if we end poverty in Africa? Or the millions of others that would survive from other countries?

Poverty, disease, famine, flood, etc are all required in order to keep our population manageable. If all the people Bono wants to save were to stay alive then the entire world would be living in poverty in 5 years due to the population explosion. What Bono sells sounds good on a tv commercial, but if his goal were ever realized our planet would be doomed.

So, why end poverty? Why not learn to live in a world that, for good or bad, requires tradgedy in order to survive?

Answer 1

It is impossible to end poverty... if you manage to get everyone in the world to an "acceptable" standard of living then they will start saying that "acceptable" is no longer acceptable and they should all have in-ground pools and two cars.

And you are correct in saying that there needs to be some tragedy and destruction in order to continue the world. If no one died, we'd be in a world of hurt. Hence, the cycle of life.

PS: Bono is a moron.

Answer 2

Well yes the world does need bad things to balance with the good. But was everything bad that has happened absolutley necessary? Could some of these tradgedies have been prevented easily, without upsetting the balance? True, bad things happen for a reason but sometimes we have to take a look at what those reasons are. Maybe so many people don't have to suffer. We can't end poverty, but everyone deserves a chance to try and make their way out of it. Right now too many people aren't given that chance.

Answer 3

From a biological perspective i agree that disease, famine and other types of population control are necessary. We can see these all throughout nature. They keep a population manageable and ensure that the entire population doesn't starve, but we are not just animals. We are humans and we have conquered and many of nature's rules and limitations. We produce enough food to feed everyone 1 and 1/2 time over. Maybe the question we should be asking is how come some countries have so much when other don't have anything, why some people die from fat related diseases when other die from starvation.

Answer 4

I'm not sure who the big dummy is here, but feeding them isn't the answer, employ them to produce something, anything that will make them self supporting. Famine is nature's answer to over population, production of something saleable to import food is the industrial answer, charity is the liberal answer. The first is certain to produce a natural balance, the second needs capital, and the third needs to be done over and over, but if the money spent on charity was spent as industrial capital there might be a solution that didn't need perpetual repeating. Like anything else the quick fix costs more than a gradual building of a viable answer.

Answer 5

Why end poverty? Homelessness and malnourishment are typical badges of poverty. Depending on the extent of poverty, a serious threat to our nation's national security could result if vast numbers of persons subjected to financial reversals were left to starve and wither in the streets instead of contributing to the gross national product.

In the U.S., reducing poverty could be attained in part by:
(1) Increasing income tax rates to pre-Nixon levels. Increased revenue could be spent on things like subsidized education and job training/mass transportation/subsidized home mortgages for low income workers;
(2) Deport all illegal immigrants so Americans do not have to compete with illegals willing to work for less money and no benefits;
(3) Enforcement of existing anti-discrimination laws to ensure minorities and the disabled (a vast source of the impovershed) are allowed to participate in the workplace
(4) Encourage every person to have the ability to effectively exercise their legal rights so they will be NOT be vulnerable to financial exploition by employers and/or providers of goods and services. Impovershed Americans need to exercise existing laws that protect against employment discrimination, price fixing and consumer fraud. A good start to exercising legal rights would be to sign up for basic paralegal classes at any local junior college.

Answer 6

What to do to end world poverty? Birth control, maybe? Generation after generation of people pro-creating with no means to support the offspring. Try to change hearts and minds perhaps, instead of letting disease and famime and war decimate millions.

Answer 7

well first of all if we are going to take care of poverty we need to do it in our own country America millions are starving here and all the famous people want to go outside of the country why? when people are starving right here in America. If we wanted to take care of poverty here in America it would can put soup kitchens with showers and the people who go there can have an address and have and be able to stay there. They would be able to get jobs because they would be clean and have an address then after they get the jobs and able to pay rent to stay at there own place they can leave the soup kitchen for good. Poverty is going to be part of our country until people hire them for jobs but since they don't have an address and they smell no one is going to hire them for jobs until they can get the help the need it wont go away. I know that some homeless are drug addicts but putting them in jail does not always help the need to be but in a facility that can help them there needs to be a free clinic just like they have the health department they need to have an addict clinic for the people who want help but cant afford it can get the help the need. i know there is the methadone clinic but that is a good but that is for people who already got off drugs
I know we can't totally get rid of poverty but that does not mean we can't help to get rid of some. We do need to take care of ourselves first before we go and help others.

Answer 8

The key to ending poverty in the world is self-sustaining living. Cheap passive solar homes, such as domes with greenhouses, or adobe in the desert, is the best! Teach humans how to survive and work with their environment, in order to sustain themselves. We are all connected in the world and if one place is 'Sick" then it effects us all. Let one hand hold the other. If we all waited for professionals to teach us what to do, we'd never have anything! If you know something and it works for you, Share your knowledge!

Answer 9

you're wrong. Have you ever even traveled outside of the Western world? The world is full of untapped resources. No, it's not limitless, but these people want and need the basics like food and water. They aren't expecting two chickens in every pot and a car++ in every garage.

You big dummy.

Answer 10

geting off fossil fuel would help end poverty because these idiots who have it wont be having money for wars and holding us hostage the ignorant are becoming rich from it iraq sudan venezuela they cause war and torture no fossil fuel madmen like binladin wont be billionairs get on sugar or corn like we are capable of try that campain bono instead of supprting aids and enabling immorality which is reproducing try teaching birth control its their own choices making them have a hand out