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- W2039868049 abstract "As you read this editorial, over a billion of our fellow humans are existing under condition of extreme poverty and pollution (especially in large cities lacking proper infrastructure for potable water and waste treatment) without life’s most basic necessities: food, water, shelter, clothing, and health care. They lack access to education and have essentially no rights. They suffer and die from “poor people’s diseases” that seldom occur in more affluent communities. These diseases are largely preventable with diagnostic procedures and relevant drugs that are readily available in developed countries. Worst of all, the world’s poorest people have no access to birth control. Hundreds of millions of impoverished women continue to bear children regardless of their inability to provide for them and their desire to limit the sizes of their families. Even abstinence is not an option for most of them, as they have neither choice nor voice in most aspects of their lives. We have the financial means to cure the diseases, provide unpolluted potable water, reduce pollution, alleviate suffering, and prevent the premature deaths of poor people, but do we have the will? Developed countries collectively spend trillions of dollars annually on destructive warfare in the false belief that waging war will provide extra resources and make us more secure. Most recently, trillions of US taxpayer dollars have been allocated for economic bailouts, yet flawed policies and the rescued banks are the culprits behind the current global economic crisis. Research dollars are directed toward “diseases of excess”—the consequences of incorrect diets, obesity, and a lack of exercise. Why not spend some of these trillions to alleviate the misery and suffering of the poorest billion-plus humans in this world and reduce global pollution. Most of us find the typical answer to this question unacceptable. When compassionate people hear the explanation that providing aid for the poor is not profitable for companies and investors, we feel compelled to respond: How can anyone be so callous, so inhumane? How little do these people believe a human life in a developing country is worth? From the manner wealth has been allocated in the past, one would have to conclude, very little. The same people probably also fail to comprehend the precarious condition of our biosphere and the total amount of global pollution. Their greed blinds them to the interdependencies of life forms in complex ecosystems. Water Air Soil Pollut (2009) 201:1–2 DOI 10.1007/s11270-009-0101-1" @default.
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- W2039868049 title "The Cure for Our Global Problems" @default.
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