RTM: Robbins: only $ 40 billion for world water, sanitation, food, medical, education 11.21.1 rmforall

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RTM: Robbins: only $ 40 billion for world water, sanitation, food,

medical, education 11.21.1 rmforall

Hello, Let us form world service corporations, each with a charter to

make a reasonable profit by meeting these vast, basic human problems.

They could issue bonds to raise the needed billions, and sell them over

the Internet to the citizens of the world.

Then everyone would have an alternative

to investing their savings in the Ponzi scheme insanity of

stock markets and in the existing global corporations that in their

incessant pursuit of huge profits follow short-term gain strategies

that damage the environment, endanger world health with mediocre foods,

and fail to help the billions of our family who are in dire need.

This is a practical way to exercise democracy as one humanity,

bypassing the anachronistic jungle of hundreds of nations.

Forty billion dollars is $ 400 each for 100 million families-- a dollar

a day. The families of North America, Europe, Japan, South Korea,

and the well-to-do everywhere can afford this.

Rich Murray

Jean Hudon

Earth Rainbow Network Coordinator

http://www.cybernaute.com/earthconcert2000

globalvisionary@... (jean hudon)

Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001

Subject: Terror, Love and the State of the World by Robbins

This is an excellent article to forward on to as many as possible.

This is a recent talk by Robbins, who left his Baskin-Robbins ice

cream dynasty family to educate the world about the environmental

perils of modern eating habits. " Diet for a New America " 1987

" ... there is no such thing as national security as long as the basic

human needs of large portions if humanity are not met. "

- Robbins

TERROR, LOVE, AND THE STATE OF THE WORLD

by Robbins, founder of EarthSave International,

http://www.foodrevolution.org

Approximately 6,000 people perished in the September 11th attacks.

But those who died from the attacks on that tragic day were not alone.

On September 11th, 35,000 children worldwide died of hunger. A

similar number of children died on September 12th, and again on the

13th, and on every single day since then. Meanwhile, we in the U.S.

feed 80% of our grain harvest to livestock so that a people whose

cholesterol levels are too high can have cheap meat.

To advance human security and control terrorism, we must not only

find the brutality of the September 11th attacks to be totally

intolerable. We must also find intolerable that one billion people

worldwide struggle to survive on $1 a day, that more than one billion

people lack access to safe drinking water, and that 3 billion people

have inadequate access to sanitation. If we are serious about stopping

terrorism, then our goal must be to reduce the level of pollution,

fear, and poverty in the world.

The cost of our initial military response will easily top $100 billion

(on top of our already enormous annual defense budget of $342 billion).

What could we accomplish if we spent even a small fraction of that much

on programs to alleviate human suffering?

In 1998, the United Nations Development Program estimated that it would

cost an additional $9 billion (above current expenditures) to

provide clean water and sanitation for everyone on earth.

It would cost an additional $12 billion, they said,

to cover reproductive health services for all women worldwide.

Another $13 billion would be enough not only to give every person

on Earth enough food to eat but also basic health care.

An additional $6 billion could provide basic education for all.

These are large numbers, but combined they add up to $40 billion - -

only one fifth as much as the $200 billion the U.S. government agreed

in October 2001 to pay Lockheed to build

new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) jets.

What if we were equally as dedicated to eradicate hunger, to provide

clean water, to defeat infectious disease, to provide adequate jobs, to

combat illiteracy, and to end homelessness?

What if we understood that, today, there is no such thing as national

security as long as the basic human needs of large portions of humanity

are not met? "

More at: http://www.foodrevolution.org

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