Save Darfur
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Darfur is a tragedy that shouldn't happen in 2006, in the 21st century, in the third millennium while they are building the Freedom tower in New York City to replace the Twin Towers. Thinking about the billions of dollars spent in wars and weapons on this planet it's very interesting to note how much the industrialized countries destroy even where there is something already in place.
Our wealthy status is a given. We have a wealthy spending mind even if we are poor in a wealthy country as we have been taught to be.
In Italy, people spend more money in cellphones and branded clothes than in bread.
In the United States, people accumulate leftovers in their refrigerators from what they cook, what they order in and what they bring from the restaurants as a "doggy bag". This food will never be eaten again the day after.
We have also rich sixteen years old kids which receive a brand new BMW for their birthdays.
In Western Europe, North America and Japan consuming without knowing what we are consuming is the #1 activity.
The Arab Emirates, Israel, Singapore, Hong Kong and even China now are examples of how "consuming" is like a disease which touches everybody and spreads at HIV speed everywhere in the world.
Obesity is one of the major problems in the 21st century in this part of the world.
It's interesting that we have to learn from the "less industrialized countries" like Brazil, how to deal with altrenative sources of energy (sugar cane alchol for all the cars in 2007).
Are we responsibel for Darfur?
Of course we are. Do you really think that we can overconsume and someone else is not going to pay for that? We are so selfish that we do not spend any time just thinking about the idea of poverty forgetting that our parents and grandparents were extremely poor during World War II or they emigrate in another country to give us the wealthy lives we sometimes are not able to appreciate.
Yesterday president G.W. Bush addressed the General Council of the United Nations talking about the need to send U.N. troops to Darfur to minimize the genocide actions there. The idea is pretty noble but I think people would like to see the facts. Condoleza Rice already pushed once recently for the presence of the U.N. troops in Lebanon, but no American troops were scheduled to be there (mostly Italian, French and German troops). Can we expect that if the U.N. sends troops in Darfur the United States will remove troops from Iraq to that area of the world? I don't think so but I would like to believe that.
Sometimes we laugh when we hear about people like George Clooney, Angelina Jolie, Bono and Bill Gates, so rich and famous, who dedicate their time for Africa and Aids thinking that they are so rich they can do whatever they want because they are part of this counsuming society anyway. But, if governments doesn't do anything, thank God some private initiatives come on the ground, so thank you .
I also would like to thank Jay McGinley for the great comment regarding Darfur in my previous blog: "Do we really need to pay a price to get a good democracy and real freedom?".
Follows hereafter a CNN article regarding George Clooney at the United Nations:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/14/wiesel.clooney.ap/index.html
Read also this article from AllAfrica.com:
posted by BLOGTHEWORLD @ 10:54 AM
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