FutureMakers reader Simon has written a great post on relative poverty and ways he is changing his life to reduce his impact on the environment; he kindly allowed us to share his post with you.
poverty is a strange concept for a lot us growing up in Australia these days. for the majority of us, we live in relative comfort. we have access to jobs to earn money, if we can’t work we have access to a (relatively) good welfare system. if we get sick, we have a (relatively) good health care system to get us better. we have access to clean water, electricity, & telephone / internet services.
so when we hear the word poverty mentioned, its pretty hard to imagine a life without all those luxuries and relate to the hardships that the majority of the world’s people are going through.
even harder is trying to fathom that almost 50% of the world’s population live on less than $2.50 a day.
and 80% live on less than $10 a day. 80%!!!
Read the whole article here.
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