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47.8%ANMag Issue 26 Global Awareness
The Best System Leads to Poverty
By Danellandia Foundation
The UN World Food Program just warned that millions of people will additionally suffer from poverty and hunger as a result of higher food prices since some foodstuffs have risen by as much as 40%. One of the main reasons behind the price rises is the demand for bio-fuels. Bio-fuels seem to be a punishment instead of a blessing. Their positive effect on the climate change is very much contested. Some say they pollute as much as fossil fuels and their negative effect on foodstuff prices and thus on poverty is self-evident.
Why are bio-fuels produced? To combat global warming or for the benefit of some big companies that see it as a way to make huge profits? What happens to the millions of people that are already having difficulty buying food does not seem to be their concern. Again, this whole mechanism that shows supply and demand as being the perfect couple to run our economies and increasingly our politics are far from ideal.
It leaves millions of people around the globe in the cold and - even worse - leads to deaths from starvation. How much longer will this mechanism of pure adoration of the golden calf have to go on before an international organization says that enough is enough? Money is not the best regulating force as economists have been telling us for ages. It has led to riches, but it has also led to disasters (poverty, commercial exploitation, pollution, war, crime...).
It is time this gloomy picture is brightened up with new ideas that are based on a different value system; on human values. It will be the only way to save humanity.