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Onemunki says: We live in a world of genuine tragedy, starvation and terror. So, after hearing stories of cruise line passengers complaining at the air conditioning breaking down, what stories of sheer single-minded self-pity get your goat?

(, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 12:00)
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It would be...
...if there were so few resources that the world as a whole had to make a genuine choice between feeding people and looking after fluffy animals.

But there isn't. There are enough resources in the world to support everyone in at least reasonable comfort if those resources were distributed evenly. But they're not.

And I'm not even talking about billionaires versus the rest, I mean you and me. Hey, you know what? I bought a DVD a few days ago, cost me a fiver. That fiver could feed a poverty-line family in Africa for, what, a week? Two weeks? Three? But I decided they can fuck themselves because I'd rather have a DVD. And all the other DVDs I've got. And the computer I'm typing this on. Plus my TV, my microwave oven, my books, clothes I never wear, the flat I live in that could conceivably house one other person at least, all that energy that goes on shipping food to me from around the world, all that oil that goes into the plastics that form my DVDs, CDs, PC casing, clothing etc. etc. etc.
(, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 19:38, 1 reply)
Every day, 6,529 DVDs are consigned to landfill.
We can't let this go on.
Do the right thing - give a loving home to a DVD, today.

Our operators are waiting to take your call.
(, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 19:55, closed)

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