Day 692: 5 Minute Freewrite: Wednesday - Prompt: poverty
For @mariannewest in #freewrite
Not sure if I can say something original about poverty. As far as I know, 12.5% of the earth population lives in poverty and experiencing hunger. That mostly happens in countries of Africa and Latin America. Not only this is morally unacceptable but also it is practically dangerous. People are ready to do dangerous things when their children are dying from hunger or infectious diseases caused by poverty and malnutrition. That’s why millions of immigrants are flooding Europe, USA, Australia, Canada. That’s why equatorial forests – the lungs of the planet – are cut down contributing to the planet’s ecological disaster.
It would be better if commodity production and commodity consumption will be more uniformly distributed throughout the planet. People of developed countries must put their heads together to make sure that people are lifted from poverty and enjoy living in their own countries.
Sadly, there is lots of poverty in the US as well. The school a block away from me has 80% of the student population living in poverty. !out of 5 children in my town lives in food insecurity and we have 10,000 + homeless in San Diego city alone.
Of course, in LA Santa Monica beach is the rookery of bums. Although by itself this is preposterous, the percent of poverty is relatively small and it doesn't present an existential threat to the USA. Many of these people also don't want to work as they get free food distributed, and the special housing is being built for them. If you ask American bums to immigrate to any other country they will refuse.
In poor ends of the World, most of the population of entire countries are in poverty. That means that most of population wants to immigrate or destroy the natural habitat of plants and animals by cutting down equatorial forests. That endangers not only these countries but the entire World. And we cannot stop them as these are their internal policies. Therefore the only thing we can do is to educate them and teach them how they can help themselves.
For example, Bill and Malinda Gates work on eliminating malaria in the entire World. Also, they try to solve the problem of contaminated water by offering self-maintained toilets. If more people will do this in poor countries there will be fewer attempts of illegal immigration and more poor people in the USA will get jobs that otherwise are filled by non documented workers.
Exactly @mgaft1 great #freewrite 👍
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Thank you, friend! Always love your animations! I will post today 4 sure.
Some years back a man got in the news for stealing food from a hypermarket
His kids hadn't eaten in days
After finding out his predicament, they didn't press charges and instead gave him a job
Which was kind of them....
https://says.com/my/news/penang-tesco-gives-a-job-to-a-man-caught-stealing-food
Yeah. Realy that's how this should be done. Not the way it was done in "Les Miserables" )))