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The second reason for hunger, and it is probably the biggest problem that planet Earth faces, is POPULATION . Most every country has experienced an ongoing growth in population, but the greatest impact has been ironically in the world's poorest countries, experiencing exponential growth in their number.

Observe how the exponential growth of population shortens our response time to related catastrophes. Earth did not reach a population of 1 billion until about circa 1900. It took the world hundreds of thousands of years to reach this. By the mid 20th century, the world's population had grown to 2 billion. So the population had doubled in just 50 years. By the seventies, we had over 4 billion people, so the doubling time had decreased to just 25 years. On October 12th 1999, this momentous year, the world’s population reached the six billion mark. It is also predicted by our United Nations that there will be 8.5 billion of us by 2025.

This exponential growth puts a massive global strain on our capability to provide resources and services to a starving world, taking into consideration the Western World's wish to hold onto their standard of living. Imagine if your own town had its resident number double every 25 years, you would have to increase twofold the number of houses, double up the number of supermarkets, roads, and double the capacity of your local sewage treatment facility.

Such growth would be a significant strain on any community especially any 3rd World country. So needless to say, the problem of world hunger is aggravated by population growth.

A third reason for world hunger is PRIORITIES, personal and governmental. Those of us who live in an industrialized society, place a possibly selfish high priority on comfort and convenience.

Per capita, we eat heartedly, on obscene levels. Perhaps the top ten richest countries, place such a substantial strain on the world economy, that it leaves little left for many others who struggle to survive.

When a major 1st World country has only a 1 percent growth rate, that influence is eight times more than a 3rd world country having a growth rate of over 20%. The reason for this is that we use a lot more resources to maintain our standard of living.

Currently it costs 30 times more, in terms of energy and resources, to feed and see to a North American citizen, at the rate that they would expect and demand. This, as against what it would cost to satisfy some Asian or African citizen's expectations. But ironically the cost of keeping 30 starving people alive, costs much less than keeping one USA citizen living in their present standard of living.

However, who could possibly blame any citizen of the world not to expect the best that they can get. Also what Reasonable Man feels guilty just because he and his family is better off than some other less fortunate group, especially when he has no real control over this erroneous situation.

The fourth reason, is POLITICS, or sometimes the lack of it. We do not have enough space here, of years to live, to talk about all the trials and tribulations that politics has offered our world. But thus far, it does not look so good.

Politics noun - treated as singular. or plural The art and science of government. Public life and affairs. Political principles or practice, e.g. - what are his politics? - Activities concerned with seeking power, status, etc.

If we consider only the last 50 years, when the United Nations was formed; we can and must ask what have they done to halt famine, wars & conflict.

Why has there been a million times more spent on arms and Weapons of Mass Destruction, than feeding the Third World?

Why has there been a million times more spent on arms and Weapons of Mass Destruction, than feeding the Third World?

Where are all the principles that the UN talked about, and put down on paper, all those years ago?

This world, thanks to the UN, among others, is much worse off than it was 50 years ago.

Why is not every country a democratic state?

Why are countries and the representatives of non-democratic states, allowed in the UN?

Such as:

Many Middle Eastern Countries

Far East countries like China, North Korea

Many African countries

Democracy is the only government that we should allow to be part of the United Nations - All non-democratic countries should not have a place in the UN.

If we consider that, a country is not automatically an area of land but a race, a culture, a group of human beings. Then, if we foolishly believe in a democratic political system for ourselves, where in theory all subjects are equal, and have freedom of speech, the laws could be said to emanate, not from the country per se, but from the people.

However, if all the laws are made by one person, or just one small elite group, regardless of any other view, then these laws are not the laws of another country, are they? They are the laws and rules of maybe 0.0001% of the people. The UN may feel that this is fair, and that we should ignore this incongruity, we do not.

We do not believe in racial rights, or women’s rights or Gay rights, we believe in Equal Rights.

Equal Rights for everyone, and that means every person on the planet. We are guilty when we ignore the plight of others, the plight of others in other countries is our business.

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But something can be done; something that would not only help millions of Africa's starving impoverished citizens; not only help facilitate a world financial resurgence but also create a new global environment that might save humanity. It would cost nothing.
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Three thousand acres of life-giving, oxygen producing plants are eaten away by some circumstance every hour of every day.

Three thousand acres of life-giving, oxygen producing plants are eaten away by some circumstance every hour of every day.

That is FIVE acres destroyed for financial gain every time this clock sweeps by. And it will NEVER Stop !!!!

Watch the clock and think; imagine what this means.

Every single day 50,000 people die, because of the lack of food, water, medication and good government.

That is NINE fellow Human Beings dying for no good reason every time this clock sweeps by. Will it NEVER Stop !!!!

Watch the clock and think; imagine what this means.

Exponential adj.

1 of or indicated by a mathematical exponent. 2 (of an increase etc.) more and more rapid.

Every single day around 25,000 people die because they do not have enough food to eat or through some other hunger-related cause. However, thorough some intervention from the wealthy West this is less than the 35,000 10 years ago and the 40,000 20 years ago. Sadly 75% of all these deaths are children under five years old.

TheSahara.Net is a PROPOSAL to try and Terraform the Sahara Desert; to reclaim it for the benefit of the Planet. To produce a new Rainforest and Ocean.

Desertification of the world spreads every day. This will attempt to redress the balance, by replacing lost natural habitats.

STARVING WORLD OF FAMINE - Where can this child go? Who will help him?

Every minute of every day, NINE people contact AIDS, 90% of them do not have medical care. 90% of them live in Africa.

Every minute FIVE people die of AIDS.

Read this and weep. Over the last few months we have come to a frightening conclusion.

If you click onto the banner-link above, it will take you to our Sahara Supposition Page. The Sahara Supposition started life around 1995 as several things, but mainly a scheme to Terraform the Sahara Desert; read the webpage for yourself, but read this first.

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In 2051, the world's global environment will start to change without fear of God or Man. The crux of it is that by around 2080, due to Global Warming, our Northern Hemisphere, will be thrust into the biggest Ice-Age for 20,000 years. Millions of people who live in the North of our planet, that is, Northern USA, Canada, Northern Europe, will be killed, or made homeless at best.

Today, the people of Africa, our biggest continent, are dying in numbers that are unbelievable, through Starvation, AIDS, Malaria, many other diseases, dirty water, wars, homicide, TB and genocide.

The So-called civilized world bangs many drums to try to prove that it is helping to change this ELE, but it is all a farce.

Live 8, may have raised great awareness and $200 million. But this is nothing in the scheme of monetarism. War engulfs more every second.

In 1972, the USA declared that it was spending $24 million each and every hour on the Vietnam War. What is that in today's money?

In less than a century, many millions of people who live in our Northern Hemisphere, will need somewhere to live, they will have, Africa.

Parts of the USA, most of the UK and Europe will be covered in ice that could be a kilometre thick.

Great cities like Chicago, New York, London, Moscow, will be gone, sealed in some frozen stasis for maybe another century or millennium.

By then most native Africans will be dead and for the first time in Earth's history, Africa will be a continent dominated by white races.

Just a few miles south of England there is a very small island called the Isle of Wight. It is said that the whole population of the Earth could stand on this island at the same time.

Using England's Population Density, well over 50 Billion People could live in Africa, and no doubt one day they will.

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Annan Urges World Summit to Rehabilitate the Earth NEW YORK, New York, May 14, 2002 (ENS) - United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan is looking ahead a little more than three months to August 26 when the World Summit on Sustainable Development opens in Johannesburg, South Africa. Intended as a 10 year reinvigoration of Agenda 21 agreed at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, Annan sees the gathering as a means to rehabilitate the Earth. At preparatory meetings over the past year, stakeholders of all varieties have called for action, not more talk, at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD). Today Annan outlined five areas where concrete results can be attained in Johannesburg. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and his wife, Nane Annan (Photo by Evan Schneider courtesy UN) Because of the secretary-general's urgent mission to Cyprus, where he is trying to give new momentum to the peace talks, his remarks calling for action at the Johannesburg Earth Summit were delivered at the American Museum of Natural History today by his wife Nane Annan. Water and sanitation, Energy, Health, Agriculture, and Biodiversity - these are the five key areas where concrete results "can and must be obtained," Annan said. These five areas could be remembered by a simple acronym - WEHAB. Annan said her husband hopes this acronym will become "something of a mantra" between now and the opening of the Summit in Johannesburg. "You might think of it like this: we inhabit the Earth. And we must rehabilitate our one and only planet," Annan said. By concentrating on these five areas, Annan said, the Summit could produce an "ambitious but achievable program of practical steps to improve the lives of all human beings while protecting the global environment." Environmental concerns have been overshadowed, Annan said, by conflicts, globalization and, most recently, terrorism. The activities leading up to the Summit have refocused world attention on the environment, but he is articulating these five goals today, said Annan, to bring greater clarity to the process. "I sense a need for greater clarity on what Johannesburg is about and what it can achieve," he said. "Negotiators who meet later this month in Bali need clarity if they are to draft a strong program of action. The public at large needs clarity if they are to support the changes that must occur." The final preparatory conference for the Summit meets in Bali, Indonesia from May 24 to June 7. This ministerial level conference will consider the draft text offered by Prep Comm chairman Emil Salim of Indonesia. In his draft released May 9, Salim covers in detail the same points made by the secretary-general today. He and Annan both emphasize the need to eradicate poverty, which Salim calls, "the greatest global challenge facing the world today and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, particularly for developing countries." Salim suggests establishing a World Solidarity Fund for Poverty Eradication and the Promotion of Human Development in the poorest regions of the world. New efforts are needed, Annan believes, because the present model of development, which has brought privilege and prosperity to about 20 percent of humanity, has also exacted a heavy price by degrading the planet and depleting its resources. Yet, according to the Secretary-General, "at discussions on global finance and the economy, the environment is still treated as an unwelcome guest." High consumption lifestyles continue to tax the earth's natural life support systems, research and development are under funded and neglectful of the problems of the poor, and developed countries "have not gone far enough," he said, to fulfill either of the promises they made in Rio - to protect their own environments and to help the developing world defeat poverty. The issue, the secretary-general said, is not environment versus development, or ecology versus economy. "Contrary to popular belief," he said, "we can integrate the two." Annan stated concrete goals for each of the five areas he wants to see the WSSD take action to achieve. Water: Provide access to at least one billion people who lack clean drinking water and two billion people who lack proper sanitation. Energy: Provide access to more than two billion people who lack modern energy services; promote renewable energy; reduce over consumption; and ratify the Kyoto Protocol to address climate change. Health: Address the effects of toxic and hazardous materials; reduce air pollution, which kills three million people each year, and lower the incidence of malaria and African guinea worm, which are linked with polluted water and poor sanitation. Agricultural productivity: Work to reverse land degradation, which affects about two-thirds of the world's agricultural lands. Biodiversity and ecosystem management: Reverse the processes that have destroyed about half of the world's tropical rainforest and mangroves, and are threatening 70 percent of the world's coral reefs and decimating the world's fisheries. "These are five areas," Annan said, "in which progress would offer all human beings a chance of achieving prosperity that will not only last their own lifetime, but can be enjoyed by their children and grandchildren too." "In Johannesburg, we have a chance to catch up," he said. "Together, we will need to find our way towards a greater sense of mutual responsibility. Together, we will need to build a new ethic of global stewardship. Together, we can and must write a new and hopeful chapter in natural and human history." The World Summit on Sustainable Development will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa, from August 26 to September 4. Heads of government and heads of state, and more than 20,000 citizen activists and business representatives are expected to attend. More information on the World Summit on Sustainable Development is online at: http://www.johannesburgsummit.org

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