Re: FN-FORUM: OT - anyone watch Questiontime last night

date posted 10th June 2005 17:35

>They say 120,000 people die in Africa each month as a result of these
>debts and the poverty it creates but if all these people lived
>wouldn't the world be a tad busy? Perhaps stopping them breeding for
>10 years might be a more valid way to save money and lives... they
>have the energy to make sweet love but lack the enery to plough a
>field or walk to a more sensible location in the world that has water
>and a climate suitable for supporting themselves. I'm not being cruel
>here or anything but a lot of Africa seems like a pretty stupid place
>to try and live given it's reputation for drought and stuff, by now
>you would have thought people might have moved on or refrained from
>bringing more lives into the same conditions they have been living in.

>Another thing... apparently poverty is one of the reasons 38 million
>people have HIV and if we abolished debts to these countries they
>could provide drugs to keep the infected alive for a further 20 years
>or more.... so they can breed some more? So they can add to the
>120,000 a month that will also survive and eventually choke the world
>of resources.

Lost for words really. Well nearly...

A baby can't help if it has contracted Aids from its parents, but you
happily let it die in order to keep the world population down. Do you have
kids of your own? How would you feel watching helplessly as your own child
died through an entirely avoidable lack of food or medicine - and then have
some smug, 'superior' arse tell you it's all in the greater interest. I
very nearly lost my baby daughter to meningitis and the feeling of
helplessness and impending loss is something too terrible to wish on anyone.
Do you imagine African parents feel any less for their children than people
in the west?

As for 'Bonio' and 'Gandalf'... sure, they're rich and famous - bloody good
luck to them too. If they weren't they wouldn't generate the publicity for
these events. They're not lightweight jump-on-the-bandwagon celebs - they
work f***ing hard for the cause, they get things done and they make a
difference.

Unlike those wingeing from the sidelines that they're bored about hearing
about Live 8.

Niels


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