The reason why we could put a man on the moon and could not end poverty is because in relative terms the former was easy. The unstated message in the article was that if we realigned our priorities, we could end hunger. Eat your food Jimmy, there are people starving in Africa. Unfortunately it isn't that simple.
There are theoretical ways to elevate regional standards of living, none of them will work without social changes such as effective birth control. Humans as a species will respond like any other species by completely filling the ecological niche. If we *simply* feed the poor, we end up with more poor to feed. Birth control does not naturally occur without first empowering women. One cannot empower women on a large scale without changing both governance and religion. The problem mushrooms up into a horrible mess.
Over the past 30 years I haven't seen any progress in ending poverty and this is certainly not for lack of trying. The prognosis is bleak. I have come to the belief that it is beyond current human ability to solve the problem on any large scale, if a solution is even possible at all.
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There are theoretical ways to elevate regional standards of living, none of them will work without social changes such as effective birth control. Humans as a species will respond like any other species by completely filling the ecological niche. If we *simply* feed the poor, we end up with more poor to feed. Birth control does not naturally occur without first empowering women. One cannot empower women on a large scale without changing both governance and religion. The problem mushrooms up into a horrible mess.
Over the past 30 years I haven't seen any progress in ending poverty and this is certainly not for lack of trying. The prognosis is bleak. I have come to the belief that it is beyond current human ability to solve the problem on any large scale, if a solution is even possible at all.