phawley Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Just seen this charity advert on tv asking for £2 a month, according to the ad 22000 children every day die from drinking dirty water. So lets assume that we all pay up our £2 and prevent all these deaths, according to my calculator that amounts to over 8,000,000 more mouths to feed every year. Your thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrannyGranny Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 What?!? So if, say 20 of those children per day were here in the UK would you still ask the question? You are basically asking if saving those children will create a bigger problem because of the increase in the worlds population in predominately poorer countries? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgksheff Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Who was the advert sponsored by? The figure quoted is actually a global figure of children under 5 that die, daily, from preventable causes. Only one of those causes is contaminated water. While it doesn't change the main point of your original post, I am curious to learn if the advert got it wrong or you misunderstood it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hard2miss Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 We are never going to get rid of world poverty because capitalism doesn't cater for sharing wealth evenly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSmith Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 We are never going to get rid of world poverty because capitalism doesn't cater for sharing wealth evenly. But the countries with these starving children with no clean water aren’t capitalists, they have their own system and it is their system that is at fault and not ours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSmith Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Just seen this charity advert on tv asking for £2 a month, according to the ad 22000 children every day die from drinking dirty water. So lets assume that we all pay up our £2 and prevent all these deaths, according to my calculator that amounts to over 8,000,000 more mouths to feed every year. Your thoughts? It is a bit of a problem isn't it, how to give them good life without making the problem of overpopulation worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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