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Banned
before you read this post remember to keep track of how long it takes for you to read.
you believe the entire developed world is against america? japan? france? uk? germany? spain? italy? even the so called new europe? because these people signed up to kyoto? is america really that paranoid that it believes these countries are set against them and not busy tring to protect the enviroment?
capatilism doesn't give you a vote in your government neither does it prevent curroption in government. so if you want a suffering capatalist country then most of africa fits nicely.
capatalism is not a cure for the world's problems. neither is democracy. these people don't care ho runns their country. they care about whether they will be able to eat today. 30,000 people a day of starvation on this earth. take a while and think about that. that sin't counting aids or disease. that is death from hunger and malnutrition. a horrible agonising death simply caused by not being able to put food to mouth. this isn't about who runs these countries. this about giving these people enough resources to be able to feed themselves.
dropping the debt on these african countries would be a start. 11 million people a year. at what time do we stop putting a price and profit on this? the africa commission says that $75 billion is needed to start saving africa. this is not a huge amount of money. i'll put 75 billion dollars into a global scale for you. if every rich country citizen bought half a stick of chewing gum everyday for year. that's $75 billion.
drop the trade taxes on africa. this would increase africa's income by 25 billion dollars. that's a third of the above.
the debt is unpayable. it is starvation to continue it. tanzania is a prime example "in many severely indebted low income countries debt service is more than 100 per cent of government revenue and export earnings. Total debt in Tanzania, for example, is 700 per cent of government revenue, surpassing by far the sustainable level of 280 per cent."
we'll continue with tanzania. 30% new aid is used to pay old debts. more money is spent on debt per person than is spent on health and education combined. 40% of export earning go on debt.
tanzania is a country where people are starving to death. count to 3 in your head. every time you do that an african has died purely of not being able to eat.
these debts are not re-payable it is idiocicy and frankly genocide to think and act otherwise. more people will die this year in africa of starvation than jews the nazis slaughtered. and for what? this amount of money is only to starve africa. our government throws away that amount of money happily. why not for once end the death of millions?
half hearted debt relief is not an answer out of the 42 poorest nations in the world (33 are african) 6 have received debt releif. debt there reduced by less than 10%. but there was no real change in debt burdens or obligations.
we could just say to these nations that the entire debt is wiped. that we will not step back and watch millions die. and charge them for the priveledge.
and the debt has been paid. profit has been made. nigeria borrowed $5 billion and has now paid 16 billion and still owes 36 billion. do we see a cycle there? a possible escape?
African nations pay $1.51 on debt service for every $1 received in foreign aid.
and if you want injustice in this world. iraq owes $400 billion. the us is pushing to have it written of. anyone want to have a guess how much africa owes? 10 times as much? 100 times as much? a thousand times as much? no actually all of sub-saharan africa owes less than africa. 300 billion dollars. but the us pushes for one country.
it is not an unacheivable goal. the first step is abolish debt to these countries. the second is to rebuild these countries. help these countries help themselves. give them tools, seeds, animals, generators, water pumps.
still counting those seconds? good cos i'm not finished.
154 000 deaths occour due to global warming a year.
redneck you do the pleasure that i have done you many a time and provide me with any kind of evidence that cfc emmissions are greater from volcanoes than they from human use. i provided you with the links you asked for please return this.
why would anyone in america who owns an suv know the cost of his emissions of ineffeciency or emmissions if he does not know the price of life.
okay now divide the maount of second required to read this post and divide it by 3. you just witnessed that many africans die.
now tell me again why we cannot afford to save those people.
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