Report: Poverty, Disease Worsening. Curiously,
Report: Poverty, Disease Worsening. Curiously, there's still no Poverty Channel. I guess that sort of thing perplexes advertisers.
The world needs a global war on poverty and environmental degradation that is as aggressive and well funded as the war on terrorism, reports State of the World 2002, which was released today by the Worldwatch Institute, a Washington D.C.-based research organization. “Ten years after the Rio Earth Summit, we are still far from ending the economic and environmental marginalization that afflict billions of people,” says Worldwatch President Christopher Flavin. “Despite the prosperity of the 1990s, the divide between rich and poor is widening in many countries, undermining social and economic stability. And pressures on the world’s natural systems, from global warming to the depletion and degradation of resources such as fisheries and fresh water, have further destabilized societies.”
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