Save the world

[Moontanman]

You hear people all the time complaining about the conditions of the third or fourth world countries and areas of the world. How can we save them all? Do we really want to save them? If we really do want to make a real difference then we should simply move all these people to places where existence isn't marginal to areas where scratching out an existence is much easier. Every western country should take their fair share. the US should take 100 million at least. Other countries could take their share based on how big their country is and how much land and food is not being used for human existence. (forget national parks and wild areas) as a mind exercise would this work?

[Overdog]

Originally Posted by Moontanman

You hear people all the time complaining about the conditions of the third or fourth world countries and areas of the world. How can we save them all? Do we really want to save them? If we really do want to make a real difference then we should simply move all these people to places where existence isn't marginal to areas where scratching out an existence is much easier. Every western country should take their fair share. the US should take 100 million at least. Other countries could take their share based on how big their country is and how much land and food is not being used for human existence. (forget national parks and wild areas) as a mind exercise would this work?

I don't think it would be feasible, Moontanman. We can't even deal with 12 million illegal aliens. If just 10% of the world meets your criteria for relocation, that would be approximately 700,000,000 people. They would reproduce at a rate faster than you could move them....

No one really knows how many people are malnourished. The statistic most frequently cited is that of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, which measures 'undernutrition'. The most recent estimate (2006) of the FAO says that 854 million people worldwide are undernourished. This is 12.6 percent of the estimated world population of 6.6 billion. Most of the undernourished--820 million--are in developing countries. The FAO estimate is based on statistical aggregates. It looks at a country's income level and income distribution and uses this information to estimate how many people receive such a low level of income that they are malnourished.

World Hunger Notes--Global Issues: World Hunger Facts 2008 by World Hunger Education Service

Poverty is generally defined as people who cannot satisfy their basic needs because of economic strains. It inevitably occurs in the United States, as well as in all the countries in the world. Poverty is due to many factors that can include level of income, employment, distribution of resources in a country, amount of welfare, and living conditions. There is debate on whom to call "poor". However, most studies take the poverty line (the cutoff line to consider a person to be poor) as 50 percent of the median income of the nation of study.

In general, there are three degrees of poverty: absolute (extreme), moderate, and relative. Absolute poverty is known as "the poverty that kills," where these people get by with $1 a day, or less. There are approximately 1.1 billion people out of 6 billion in the world who live in absolute poverty according to the World Bank. In the United States, approximately 32 million people live in poverty, about 30% of the world number. Charts seem to show that the poverty rate in the country has decreased steadily from 1993 to 1999.

Number of People Living in Poverty

[Moontanman]

Originally Posted by Overdog

I don't think it would be feasible, Moontanman. We can't even deal with 12 million illegal aliens. If just 10% of the world meets your criteria for relocation, that would be approximately 700,000,000 people. They would reproduce at a rate faster than you could move them....

Exactly, even if you could wave a magic wand and transport everyone to a better environment people from other areas would immediately start to locate into the areas vacated until the population was back to being impoverished. What is really need is a phase change in the way people think of reproducing.

[raymond723]

Everybody should do something to save our motherland