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Old 01-09-2005, 07:41 PM  
Drake
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Originally Posted by KRL
18 Million people die of starvation and malnutrition every year. This is about 3 times the amount of people killed by the 10 worst natural disasters in recorded human history.

And yet know one seems to care about this crisis that takes 200,000 children's lives every week because it doesn't make the news.



Go figure.
In order to change it, we would all have to give up a lot and I don't think any of us are willing to. Our standard of living would have to decrease sharply to balance the distribution of wealth and even then I don't know if the world is even able to sustain the world's current human population.
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