Why you shouldn't care about Haiti

The Earthquake in Haiti               

It has been estimated in the earthquake in Haiti on January 12^th, 2010 over 200,000 Haitians died. 

It was a terrible tragedy and there was an unprecedented outpouring of support from around the world.

There were telethons, 800 numbers, and commercials featuring Michelle Obama, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush.

Within a few days over $220 million in donations had poured in.  Donations to Haiti are now poised to exceed Katrina’s record of $6.4 Billion. 

Why you shouldn’t care

200,000 is a staggering number, yet (at 24,000 per day) almost 200,000 people PER WEEK die of hunger. 

It is World Hunger, not earthquakes, not AIDS, and not global warming that is the #1 most deadly catastrophe on the planet. 

• Unlike earthquakes it can be prevented.
• Unlike AIDS it can be cured.
• Unlike global warming there is 100% agreement over its immediate reality.

But for some reason – we just don’t care.

Sure, we SAY we care, if someone were to ask you if you cared you probably wouldn’t say no.  But the answer is not in our words it’s in our actions. 

It is estimated that it would cost $30 billion to solve the world hunger crisis.  Just to give you an idea of the relative smallness of that number:

• The world’s total military expenditure in 2008 was $1.4 Trillion – this is 50 times larger than the total cost to eliminate world hunger.
• The total cost of worldwide economic bailout was over $13 Trillion – roughly 500 times larger than the cost to eliminate world hunger.
• The total amount estimated to be raised for Haiti is roughly $8 Billion – this is ¼ of the amount needed to ELIMINATE WORLD HUNGER.
• Finally the most upsetting number of all.  In 2007 Wall Street executives and traders paid themselves over $33 Billion in bonuses, more than the amount needed to end hunger for the over 1 Billion starving and malnourished people living on earth today.

What you can do

In 1963 President Kennedy said, “We have the means, we have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the earth in our lifetime. We need only the will.”

50 YEARS LATER we still cannot find the will to do what is right.

I would ask each and every person who reads this to look at the “man (or woman) in the mirror” and ask yourself what kind of person you really are, and if you’re living in the kind of world that you want to live in – and if you’re not happy with the answer then do something to change it.

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