Who believes this stat from Live 8?

[Pacfanweb]

The official Live 8 site says that 30,000 children die needlessly from poverty every day.

Every day? Thirty Thousand? That's over Ten Million per year.

Sounds far-fetched to me.

 

[notfred]

Uh, it says 30,000.

And that seems totally reasonable to me. 30,000 is 1/2000th of 1 percent of the popualtion of the world.

 

[Toastedlightly]

seems logical. Maybe our planet will soon reach an equalibrium of people

 

[djheater]

I'm gonna guess that Amused does not believe this stat.

 

[Pacfanweb]

Yep, 30k per day, which would be over 10mil per year. Got my numbers mixed up and will edit to correct.

 

[Pacfanweb]

BTW, this concert is specifically about Africa, not the whole world...if I'm reading it right. Says nothing about China, or any other poor place.

 

[SouthPaW1227]

Originally posted by: Toastedlightly
seems logical. Maybe our planet will soon reach an equalibrium of people

exactly. It's sad but it's just a law. This Earth cannot support a world full of wealthy, not hungry people (in the quantity we have now).

As sad as it is, if we solve cancer & AIDS, we're screwed.

 

[klah]

They die because Robert Mugabe decided to buy a new jet.

 

[Connoisseur]

Originally posted by: Pacfanweb
The official Live 8 site says that 10,000 children die needlessly from poverty every day.

Every day? Ten Thousand? That's over Ten Million per year.

Sounds far-fetched to me.

It's not just in the US dude. Think all of Africa, some parts of Asia. Ten million sounds like a lot but consider that the birth rate is something like 1.5 or 2% of the world's population per year... that's <=120 million people a year. I'm not trying to statisticize lives but as far as the world population is concerned, 10 million is peanuts

 

[Pacfanweb]

Originally posted by: Connoisseur

Originally posted by: Pacfanweb
The official Live 8 site says that 10,000 children die needlessly from poverty every day.

Every day? Ten Thousand? That's over Ten Million per year.

Sounds far-fetched to me.

It's not just in the US dude. Think all of Africa, some parts of Asia. Ten million sounds like a lot but consider that the birth rate is something like 1.5 or 2% of the world's population per year... that's <=120 million people a year. I'm not trying to statisticize lives but as far as the world population is concerned, 10 million is peanuts

Not talking about the world, Live 8 is about Africa.

 

[Ns1]

Originally posted by: SouthPaW1227

Originally posted by: Toastedlightly
seems logical. Maybe our planet will soon reach an equalibrium of people

exactly. It's sad but it's just a law. This Earth cannot support a world full of wealthy, not hungry people (in the quantity we have now).

As sad as it is, if we solve cancer & AIDS, we're screwed.

yep; heartless but true

 

[Pacfanweb]

Originally posted by: SouthPaW1227

Originally posted by: Toastedlightly
seems logical. Maybe our planet will soon reach an equalibrium of people

exactly. It's sad but it's just a law. This Earth cannot support a world full of wealthy, not hungry people (in the quantity we have now).

As sad as it is, if we solve cancer & AIDS, we're screwed.

And the way I see it, the death rate of poor people is Darwinism at work. If they already can't feed themselves, why in the hell do they keep having children?
There are condoms available, and they don't use them. I know that isn't 100 percent effective, but it's a lot better than nothing.
That would stop a lot of the AIDS problem over there, too.
And it seems like our president signed the largest AIDS relief bill for AFrica, ever, not too long ago.
What more do they want us to do?

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

seems reasonable to me...