“With
great power comes great responsibility”
"In
a democratic world, as in a democratic Nation, power must be linked
with responsibility... ."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“Much
will be required of the person entrusted with much and still more
will be demanded of the person entrusted with more.” 
“Pressure
is a privilege (Billie Jean King)You Tube
Better Days, Dr. Norman Borlaug
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2. Does the US Government do enough to help countries in the 3rd world?
3. Should the US Government make sacrifices at home in order to improve living conditions in the 3rd world?
4. If the USA shared more of its wealth with the rest of the world, would terrorism decrease?
5. How many of you would like to see US Taxes increased so that we can do more to help our 3rd world brothers and sisters?
6. How many of you think ___ is an idiot?
7. How many of you think ___ is an idiot?
8. Do you feel responsible if someone in Africa dies of starvation?
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China uses an excessive amount of coal on an
annual basis, knowing full well that coal has the very worst environmental
finger print of all the energy sources.
Brazil has depleted > 25% of its native rainforest that in turn was the
single largest carbon sink in the world. They continue to ignore USA
efforts to reduce further deforestation.
AIDS is an epidemic. Botswana has an
adult HIV prevalence of 24.1% . Many variants of HIV present in the
USA can be traced to Botswana.
World H.
|
Grain
Source
|
Cal/kg
|
Production, Mt, 2004
|
Total
Calories
|
|
Wheat grain,
|
3394
|
624,093,306
|
2.11802E+15
|
|
Cornmeal, whole
|
3625
|
705,293,226
|
2.55682E+15
|
|
Rice, white
|
1219
|
608,496,284
|
7.41497E+14
|
|
Soybeans
|
1734
|
206,409,525
|
3.57837E+14
|
|
Potatoes
|
1092
|
328,865,936
|
3.59195E+14
|
|
Total
|
6.13336E+15
|
||
|
World Population
|
6,670,000,000
|
||
|
/ 6.7 billion / 365
|
|||
|
Calories per person/day from grain
|
2519
|
||
Total Beef if split
evenly among the 6.6 billion (189 cal/person/day)
Total Fish if split evenly among the 6.6 billion (93.9 cal/person/day)
Total Milk/Cheese if split evenly among the 6.6 billion (137 cal/person/day)
Total (Beef, Fish, Milk/Cheese) = 419.9 cal/person/day
Minimum (2500 cal/person/day) (Developed/Developing)
World Population: (on-line)
2007 6.67 billion
2025
8.77
billion (projected)
US Census Bureau
Consumption of World’s Nat. Resources Worlds Population World’s Waste generated
------------------------------------------- %
---------------------------------------------Developed
66
20 75
Developing 34
80 25
(United Nations) Americans and Europeans together spend $17 billion a year on pet food, $4 billion more than the estimated yearly additional amount needed to provide everyone in the world with basic health and nutrition.
27
Million Golfers in the USA
24.3 Billion dollars spent on golf in 2004 ($888/person/year)
82 Million Hunters USA (fishing, etc.)
108 Billion spent on hunting in 2001 ($1317/person/year)
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Food Quality, Environmental Safety: Afforded luxury in the developed world
-
700 million people in the developing world do not have access to sufficient food
-
180 million children are underweight
-
10-12 million pre-school children die each year due to hunger, disease, malnutrition (33,000 each day)
-
world population is increasing by almost 100 million people/yr. (3%/yr.)
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world food production will increase at 2%/yr.
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1.1 billion people in developing countries were living in poverty in 1990. IFPRI (International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC) http://www.cgiar.org/IFPRI/index.htm
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250000 to 500000 preschool children go blind each year due to vitamin A deficiencies. Two thirds of these children die within months of going blind
L21:4, widow gave all she had
Mt6:21, For where your
treasure is, there will your heart be also
USA Abortions > 1.4 million per year Number of
abortions per year: Approximately 46 Million Where
abortions occur: Legality of
abortion: Abortion
averages:
Abortions Worldwide
Number of abortions per day: Approximately 126,000
78% of all abortions are obtained in developing countries and 22% occur
in developed countries.
About 26 million women obtain legal abortions each year, while an
additional 20 million abortions are obtained in countries where it is
restricted or prohibited by law.
Worldwide, the lifetime average is about 1 abortion per woman.
USAID
1.
Total giving
2. USA Ranks
Last (% of GNP spent on AID)
3.
World Produces Enough Food to Feed Everyone Today
Noman Borlaug, 1970 Nobel Peace Prize
CGIAR (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Reseach) http://www.cgiar.org/
Given the long lag time between investment in agricultural research and the resulting production increases, failure to invest (developmental agriculture) today will show up in production shortfalls 10-20 years from now (IFPRI).
From now on increased world food production will have to count on yield gains or pay high financial and ecological costs (land degradation and deforestation) for expansion into areas not yet cultivated (IFPRI).
Without the availability and proper use of chemical fertilizers, herbicides, insecticides and fungicides, the worldwide growing demands for food cannot be met, and devastating social, economic and political chaos is inevitable (Dr.. Norman Borlaug, 1994).
Risk
Environmental
Loss of Human Life
Economic
It is wonderful how much good you can do if you don’t worry about who gets the credit (D.D. Eisenhower)
Added websites: Food and Agriculture Organization (Rome, Italy) www.fao.org
World Resources Institute (www.wri.org)
