Here is a shortened version of my commentary intended for broadcast tomorrow.
So ends the first decade of the 21st Century. The first ten years of the new millennium have brought more war and more starvation, more greed and more violence, a greater demand from more people to, 'believe as I believe or die'.
We see the most powerful nation in the world crippled by an apparently incurable drug habit. We see birth rates climbing steadily in those nations which are steadily losing the fight to feed their hungry people. We see global organisations that would be prosecuted as criminal syndicates except that they are in partnership with most of the governments in the most developed nations.
Those who have wealth want only to accumulate more. Those who have nothng see only two paths open to them to avoid starvation; rob and kill, or join the international drug trade, whose promise is a richer, if perhaps much shorter, life. Another drug deal gone bad is often the only eulogy offered as the bullet-riddled body of another young man is pulled from the drain.
One by one across the world the voices of children crying from hunger are stilled by death. In the biggest cities, amid great accumulation of wealth, many are the elderly left to die alone and lonely.
There is more than enough food in the world to feed everyone, but too much of the productive wealth of the nations of the world is in the hands of people who have substituted greedy desire for a conscience.
Happy New Year?
I don't think so.
Con los pobres de la tierra...
Garza
So ends the first decade of the 21st Century. The first ten years of the new millennium have brought more war and more starvation, more greed and more violence, a greater demand from more people to, 'believe as I believe or die'.
We see the most powerful nation in the world crippled by an apparently incurable drug habit. We see birth rates climbing steadily in those nations which are steadily losing the fight to feed their hungry people. We see global organisations that would be prosecuted as criminal syndicates except that they are in partnership with most of the governments in the most developed nations.
Those who have wealth want only to accumulate more. Those who have nothng see only two paths open to them to avoid starvation; rob and kill, or join the international drug trade, whose promise is a richer, if perhaps much shorter, life. Another drug deal gone bad is often the only eulogy offered as the bullet-riddled body of another young man is pulled from the drain.
One by one across the world the voices of children crying from hunger are stilled by death. In the biggest cities, amid great accumulation of wealth, many are the elderly left to die alone and lonely.
There is more than enough food in the world to feed everyone, but too much of the productive wealth of the nations of the world is in the hands of people who have substituted greedy desire for a conscience.
Happy New Year?
I don't think so.
Con los pobres de la tierra...
Garza
