It is not a pleasure to join the End Poverty 2015, because one is aware of the daunting global task it envisages. Even then one has a glimmering hope that this campaign would succeed in prompting the rich nations of the world already caught in a turmoil of global recession would set their economic policies and life styles of wasteful consumption so as to ease, if not altogether eradicate the terrible impact of poverty in the underdeveloped and developing nations.
The natural resources of the earth are not inexhaustible. Oil is fast depleting. The last barrel of oil is not too far. A new energy future has to be worked out. Nearly 2.2 billion people in more than 62 countries, one-third of the world’s population, are starved for water. Global population has tripled in the past 70 years while water use has grown sixfold due to industrial development, widespread irrigation, and lack of conservation. It is feared scarcity of water may lead to third world war.1 To top it all there is a projected 3C jump in global temperature caused by global warming which in turn would include a loss of up to 400 million tonnes of cereal production and put between 1.2 billion and three billion people- half of the current world’s population- at risk of water shortage. It is a case of double jeopardy. This is a wake-up call for the developed industrial nations.
It is not a pleasure to
It is not a pleasure to join the End Poverty 2015, because one is aware of the daunting global task it envisages. Even then one has a glimmering hope that this campaign would succeed in prompting the rich nations of the world already caught in a turmoil of global recession would set their economic policies and life styles of wasteful consumption so as to ease, if not altogether eradicate the terrible impact of poverty in the underdeveloped and developing nations. The natural resources of the earth are not inexhaustible. Oil is fast depleting. The last barrel of oil is not too far. A new energy future has to be worked out. Nearly 2.2 billion people in more than 62 countries, one-third of the world’s population, are starved for water. Global population has tripled in the past 70 years while water use has grown sixfold due to industrial development, widespread irrigation, and lack of conservation. It is feared scarcity of water may lead to third world war.1 To top it all there is a projected 3C jump in global temperature caused by global warming which in turn would include a loss of up to 400 million tonnes of cereal production and put between 1.2 billion and three billion people- half of the current world’s population- at risk of water shortage. It is a case of double jeopardy. This is a wake-up call for the developed industrial nations.