Poverty 'is World's Worst Threat'

[G_j]

www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0217-08.htm

Published on Tuesday, February 17, 2004 by the BBC

Poverty 'is World's Worst Threat'
by Alex Kirby

 The leader of Catholics in England and Wales, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, says the biggest challenge confronting the world is not terrorism but poverty.
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor

He told a conference called by the UK Treasury that poverty was humanity's "greatest scandal and scourge" today.

The cardinal said the world risked getting its definitions and priorities wrong by concentrating on terrorism.

Failed states, he said, were those that could not lift people out of poverty, or share wealth so all could flourish.

The UK Chancellor Gordon Brown earlier told the conference, Making Globalization Work For All, that the developed world was failing in its promises to reduce global poverty and sickness.
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[opihimoimoi]

1. Yup, George got it wrong but he don't know it.... yet.

[JNelson6563]

2. yet here in America so many are the size of two

I just read the thread bemoaning the fact that seriously over-weight people are "fair game" and then I read this. So much of the world is starving I have a really hard time feeling sorry for people how are grossly overweight.

Julie