A Letter to the Editor
"Sadly we ignore a lot of things that don't affect us.( Including the tragedy of the Congo).
We do sometimes mention the plight of the Palestinians, but few bother to take it further.
We ignore Darfur.
30 years on from Live Aid, we still ignore starvation and corruption in Africa. If you are old enough to remember July 13th 1985, or be at Live Aid as I was, on the day as a young, enthusiastic pre-cynic, I felt that day we solved the problem. In truth it helped some, but hardly scratched the surface.
The irony is we spend 99% of our lives bemoaning our terrible situation, eg being no better off than in 2007 (shock horror), while HALF the worlds population is either starving to death, in war, civil war, famine or living on $1 a day.
We must examine ourselves for this hypocrisy more often, not once every couple of months. which is basically about the run-rate for articles like this.
Do we care?
Does anyone really care?
It doesn't seem like it to me.
Sorry, but I have seen these sort of articles for decades, and nothing changes."
I think there is a lot of truth in what the above person wrote and would reflect what many others believe, too.
We do sometimes mention the plight of the Palestinians, but few bother to take it further.
We ignore Darfur.
30 years on from Live Aid, we still ignore starvation and corruption in Africa. If you are old enough to remember July 13th 1985, or be at Live Aid as I was, on the day as a young, enthusiastic pre-cynic, I felt that day we solved the problem. In truth it helped some, but hardly scratched the surface.
The irony is we spend 99% of our lives bemoaning our terrible situation, eg being no better off than in 2007 (shock horror), while HALF the worlds population is either starving to death, in war, civil war, famine or living on $1 a day.
We must examine ourselves for this hypocrisy more often, not once every couple of months. which is basically about the run-rate for articles like this.
Do we care?
Does anyone really care?
It doesn't seem like it to me.
Sorry, but I have seen these sort of articles for decades, and nothing changes."
I think there is a lot of truth in what the above person wrote and would reflect what many others believe, too.
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