Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Anti-Poverty Day

I saw this map on relgion4life.tblog.com:



This is a map of the populations of various countries living on $1 per day or less.

Green is 2-5%
Light Green is 6 - 20%
Yellow is 30-40%
Orange is 40-60%
Red is 60-80%

There are resources and there is technology to solve this, just as there are resources and technology to reverse the damage we are doing to our environment.

These are issues we need to address -- real, urgent human rights issues.