An issue of a choice
- 1. An Issue of a Choice -----For people died of hunger, malnutrition and our indifference.
- 2. Are you hungry ?
- 3. Do you know how many people feel hungry now?
- 4. Believe it or not,
- 6. more than 1,000,000,000 people worldwide are suffering from hunger
- 7. right here on this planet,
- 9. right now at this moment.
- 11. One percent of them die of hunger and malnutrition each year.
- 13. So how do we help them?
- 14. At a side event of the World Food Summit: five years later, in June 2002, the FAO Secretariat presented a draft outline for an Anti Hunger Programme, a strategic, cost-effective framework for national and international action to reduce hunger through agricultural and rural development and wider access to food. According to this proposal, public investment of US$24 billion a year would be enough to jump-start an accelerated campaign against hunger that could reach the WFS goal. Taken in perspective, the price tag is startlingly low, dwarfed by the more than US$300 billion that the OECD nations transferred to support their own agriculture in 2001. As the economist Jeffrey Sachs has pointed out, in comparison to a global economy measured in the trillions, US$24 billion could be considered a “rounding error”, representing barely five cents for every US$100 of income. And the payoff would be impressively high. FAO has estimated that achieving the WFS goal would yield at least US$120 billion per year in benefits as a result of longer, healthier and more productive lives for several hundred million people freed from hunger. ----- The State of Food Insecurity in the World (2002)
- 15. They just need 24 billion dollars each year .
- 16. Unfortunately, the total expenditure of World Food Programme who provided food for 102.1 million people in 78 countries in 2008
- 17. was only US$3.72 billion in that year.
- 18. Do you think that 24 billion dollars is a huge amount of money?
- 19. I don’t think so.
- 20. If every country gave less than 0.05 percent of its GDP in 2008,
- 22. there would be 24 billion dollars .
- 23. If every government of countries gave less than 2 percent of its military expenditure in 2008,
- 25. there would be 24 billion dollars .
- 26. If every company whose name was in Forbes Global 2000 list gave a bit more than 1 percent of its profits in 2008,
- 28. there would be 24 billion dollars .
- 29. If every citizen of developed countries and territories gave less than 2 dollars of his or her income once a month in 2008,
- 31. there would be 24 billion dollars .
- 32. So this is not a technological issue.
- 34. This is not an economic issue.
- 36. This is even not a political issue,
- 38. but a moral issue.
- 39. Do you believe it?
- 40. Are you still sitting there and doing nothing for this?
- 41. If your conscience allows you to do so,
- 42. what do you think the difference is between you and this man?
- 44. He killed more ？
- 45. I don’t think so.
- 46. People more than those who died in World War II
- 48. starved to death in the last decade .
- 49. People more than those who died in the Holocaust
- 51. starve to death each year .
- 52. People more than three times of those who died in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 54. starve to death each month .
- 55. People more than eight times of those who died in 9.11
- 57. starve to death each day .
- 58. One person
- 59. who just wishes for some food
- 60. starves to death each three seconds .
- 61. Most of those starved people
- 62. are children
- 64. younger than five years old.
- 65. What made those children starved?
- 68. Wars ?
- 70. The global food crisis ?
- 72. I don’t think so.
- 73. Our indifference killed the children.
- 74. This is an issue of a choice .
- 75. As a member of this cold society,
- 76. what do you choose to do?
- 77. To save
- 78. or to kill ?
- 79. You can donate money, food or whatever you can donate to World Food Programme.
- 80. Even if you don’t have the power or money ,
- 81. you can go to www.thehungersite.com and www.freerice.com to give free food.
- 82. You can go to www.wfp.org, www.fao.org and www.ifad.org to learn more.
- 83. You can tell all those things you learned to your family, friends, strangers and whoever you can speak to.
- 84. Just believe it, there are many things you can do .
- 85. Just do something
- 86. from now on .
- 87. The dying children
- 89. can’t wait.
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