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What causes global poverty? Why do countries in the northern hemisphere enjoy so much wealth while over a billion people in the southern hemisphere live in slums on less than a dollar a day, where one person (usually a child under 5) dies of starvation every 3.6 seconds? Many would say that these are questions too complicated to be answered, like trying to figure out why bad things happen in the world. It could be lack of education, lack of infrastructure, government corruption, disease, war, or any number of factors in any number of combinations. But in the documentary THE END OF POVERTY, the cause of global poverty is made quite clear: it's US, meaning the countries of the northern hemisphere, which have been extracting wealth from the southern hemisphere for centuries. Or, as one expert puts it, they are poor because we are rich.
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What causes global poverty? Why do countries in the northern hemisphere enjoy so much wealth while over a billion people in the southern hemisphere live in slums on less than a dollar a day, where one person (usually a child under 5) dies of starvation every 3.6 seconds? Many would say that these are questions too complicated to be answered, like trying to figure out why bad things happen in the world. It could be lack of education, lack of infrastructure, government corruption, disease, war, or any number of factors in any number of combinations. But in the documentary THE END OF POVERTY, the cause of global poverty is made quite clear: it's US, meaning the countries of the northern hemisphere, which have been extracting wealth from the southern hemisphere for centuries. Or, as one expert puts it, they are poor because we are rich.
For more ReThink Reviews, visit rethinkreviews.net
