It is not natural or inevitable that half the world goes hungry; that the freedom of markets trumps protection of the planet; or that citizens' rights come second to those of corporations.
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Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.
People are hungry for what's happening right now in the world.
You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.
The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?
We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for.
The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments.
The whole world is determined by trade - which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone's desire to have a better life. How? By consuming. For countries, the 'Holy Grail' is economic growth.
Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.
When the world decides to stop being greedy... there will be a harvest for the world! Amen.
The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.