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Consider this
Consider this nearly half the world\'s population live on less than £1.10 pence a day
If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you were more blessed
than the one million people who will not survive this week.
The parched planet
It takes 20,000 litres of water to make 1 Kilo of Coffee.
11,000 litres of water for 1 quarter-pounder hamburger.
7,000 litres of water for 1 cotton T-shirt.
5,000 litres of water for 1 kilo of cheese.
5,000 litres of water for 1 kilo of rice.
3,000 litres of water for 1 kilo of suger.
2,000 litres of water for 1 litre of milk.
1,000 litres of water for 1 kilo of wheat.
The parched planet Fred Pearce New Scientist 22 February 2006.
Food for the Future
"Most of us get enough to eat, but roughly 800 million people in the world go hungry every day. The world\'s population is set to increase from about six billion today to nearly ten billion by 2050. Will more people inevitably go hungry Is the earth capable of producing enough food for the future?
" Prof Sir John Krebs - 30/12/2005
Aristotle once said
"To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor any easy matter"
John Wesley once said
"Do all the good you can
By all the means you can all the ways you can
At all the times you can
To all the people you can
As long as you can"
One day
Silence is no longer an option.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter
Winston Churchill.
We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.
Albert Camus
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. you will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life:
Carl Jung
Even a happy life cannot be with out measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness:
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