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Originally Posted by punky
Seems funny that such an array of over-pampered celebs are trying to get us to make poverty history. How can you make something that is relative, history? Give everyone $1billion, and then the people who only have $1billion would be in 'extreme poverty'.
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Not really, With $1billion you wouldnt die of hunger. This is not feeling sorry that poor people dont have as much money as us. Its because people are dying because they cant afford to live. It not 'all relative' when they are poor on that scale.
The point of live 8 is not to make everyone equal in the sense of wealth so we can all hold hands and sign the night away like some drug-induced hippy fantasy. The point of equality in this sense is the unfair trade restrictions which means that Africa cannot get wealthy because they cannot enter the Global markets due to fees, taxes, and other rules that are applied to African trade. Africa cannot make it by itself when they cannot benefit from trade
At the same time any aid we give is taken back 3 times over due to the debt. For every $1 we give, we take $2. So any aid in reality is just us paying off part of they debt. Thanks to interest payments the debt only increases as well, the unfair trade laws mentioned above prevent Africa from ever paying it back.
Live 8 was simply to help encourage the G8 to make trade fair and cancel the debt. Even without aid those two acts would be a massive step forward in helping Africa. It would enable Africa to start actually making money and then spending it on Health, Education and feeding there people instead of paying us.
Saying that Poverty in africa is simply a matter of relativity sort of misses the point
Anyway, Here are some pics I took from the concert
