Low on the Go!

Its funny. How our societies can spend $800 billion dollars on military spending, and $40 billion dollars on golf, but can't afford to spend the extra $5 billion dollars for the next five years to put EVERY single child in the world in school. Education is the only way to eliminate the cycle of poverty. Shows what priorities our world has. The truth is, organizations like the WTO, and our governments celebrate the fact that there exists a CLEARLY defined rich and poor. The truth is, in order for poverty to be eliminated, countries such as Canada and the States would be required to get off their comfy cushions. We are a bunch of blokes. 1 billion people tonight will go to bed hungry, and yet our world has enough food to feed the world 3 times over. Every 3.5 days, more people will die of hunger than the people that died during the bombing of Hiroshima. OVer the last 5 years, more people have died than the people that have died in all wars during the last 150 years of our existence.The USA, the equivalent of about 6% of the world's population uses 42% of the world's resources and is responsible for 37% of the world's waste. Don't think though, that because we live in Canada we aren't a part of this. because we are very much a part of this.It matters because we are all humans. Because borders are just invisible lines created by man. Because in essence, the color of skin doesn't matter. Don't we all laugh, cry, shit? Don't we all feel pain? Feel regret, feel joy? We've forgotten that in reality, we are all the same. The fact that in the time it takes me to snap my fingers, another child will have died of hunger doesn't seem to make us flinch anymore. Children and those who go hungry have become statistics. Mere numbers. We may forget numbers, but its hard to forget this...