Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Poverty in an overpopulated world


By David Briceno
Grass Valley

The United Nations recently reported there are now about seven billion people on Earth. Most live in poverty. More are on the way.

Population will greatly increase in Third World countries, which raises the question: Why are some nations rich while others are so poor? Is the disparity due to overpopulation?

There's complex answers to those questions with no single explanation. World inequality is a phenomenon that most people nowadays are well aware of. There's no question some have more than others. It's an unequal world, after all.

But inequality isn't really that important, right? No. Inequality can be very dangerous. Those who have much more have historically tried to convince those who have far less that they should take their inequality lying down.


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