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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Three-quarters of the world's population doesn't have enough to eat!
We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.
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.
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.
Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons.
The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?
Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes - the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things - there is nothing to fall back on.
Earth is abundant with plentiful resources. Our practice of rationing resources through monetary control is no longer relevant and is counter-productive to our survival.
You want stability in the world, you have to start with values.
Stability is not the way of the world.