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Economic disparity & the need for sharing We in the developed part of the world use and waste three-quarters of the world’s food and not less than 83% of all other resources. In the developing world, the Third World, with two thirds of the world’s population, millions are starving, They have to make do with one-quarter of the world’s food and 17% of other resources. As a result, 1.2 billion people live in absolute poverty. That means they have an income of less than $100 per year. Half of them, more than 500 million people, have nothing. They live out miserable, stunted lives, dying of malnutrition and the diseases which result. Thirty-eight million people are literally starving to death. Every 2.4 seconds a child in the Third World dies of starvation, while at the same time there is a 10% per capita surplus of food rotting away in the in storehouses of the developed world. This situation threatens the well-being of the world. If we accept the principle of sharing, accept that we are
one, redistribute the world’s resources and so create justice in the world, we will
have peace. It is the only way in which we will have secure and lasting peace. If we do
not, and continue in our greedy, selfish, and competitive ways, we will find that the
tensions inherent in the divisions between the living standards in the developed and
developing worlds are so great that they will erupt in a third world war which will
destroy all life. That is the choice before humanity today...We have to take upon
ourselves the responsibility for each other. "My plan is that the world should be changed by man. The Law forbids all else... The problems of mankind are real but solvable. The solution lies within your grasp. Take your brother's need as the measure for your action and solve the problems of the world. There is no other course..." (The World Teacher) "Cooperation is another word for Unity. Unity and cooperation are the springboards to the future and the guarantee of achievement for all men. Great reservoirs of power lie untapped within humanity, waiting for the magic of cooperation to unleash." (The Master —)
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