This one is for all those who have sold their 'souls to a corporation'...(you know who you are, right, AN????)
Allow me to share a simple paragraph from a letter on world hunger called 'Sharing Daily Bread' written by some canadian bishops back in the 70's.
"No amount of generosity extended to the underdeveloped nations will significantly alleviate world hunger until the market system itself is changed. The present market is designed primarily to make profits, not to feed people. The supply & distribution of food is determined mainly by effective demand, not by human need. Effective demand is usually defined in terms of abilty to pay. Food supplies are often controlled in such a way as to drive up prices in the market. A contradictiin is built into the system producing and distributing food. Human society does not plan to grow adequate food supplies for its population and then distriubte them to people according to their objective requirements. Instead, the institution which regulates the production and delivery of food is defined by a principle, the profit priniciple, which has no direct relation to peole's needs".
The fact that this is the way the system works today illustrates collective/social sin. The 'sin' part i might delve into another time. Suffice is to say that we need a lot more than food aid to help the world - we need to buy back some of those 'sold souls'!!!!!
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The problem is the result of populations expanding to meet any available food supply. What Garrett Hardin wrote back at the time the Canadian Bishops wrote their piece is hard-hearted but true.
So is the message Dr. Albert Bartlett has been delivering for a couple of decades, that the greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to comprehend the exponential function.
Top of the day to you. Stev
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