“Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them.” EnergyChallengesPovertyOur TimeSustainabilityDefiningEnding Poverty Author:Jim Yong Kim
“The great question for our time is, how to make sure that the continuing scientific revolution brings benefits to everybody rather than widening the gap between rich and poor. To lift up poor countries, and poor people in rich countries, from poverty, to give them a chance of a decent life, technology is not enough. Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.” PeopleIfsGivingCountryEnoughChancePoorPovertyTechnologyRichRevolutionBenefitsEthicsDrivenLiftsOur TimeDecentGapsToysContinuingPoor PeopleRich And PoorPoor CountriesRich CountriesDecent LifeScientific RevolutionNew Toys Author:Freeman Dyson
“There is another form of poverty! It is the spiritual poverty of our time, which afflicts the so-called richer countries particularly seriously.” CountrySpiritualFormPovertyOur Time Book:I Ask You to Pray for Me: Opening a Horizon of Hope Source: I Ask You to Pray for Me: Opening a Horizon of Hope
“Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness because it drives everything else.” ImportantProblemSocialPovertyCrimeDrugWelfareOur TimeHomelessnessIlliteracySocial Problems Author:Charles A. Murray
“To make a proper moral appraisal of the prevalence of severe poverty today, we should focus not on comparisons with times past, when the global average income was much lower, but on a comparison with what would be possible in our time, given the current global average income and level of technological and administrative development.” ShouldWould BeTodayPastGivenLevelsMoralPovertyFocusDevelopmentAverageCurrentsIncomeOur TimeComparisonTechnologicalSevereAdministrativeTimes PastAppraisalPoverty Today Author:Thomas Pogge
“A few hundred years ago, perhaps 85 or even 90 percent of humanity lived below a standard of living that today only 40 or 45 percent fail to reach. But at that earlier time only part of this poverty could have been eradicated, and this at substantial cost not only to the pleasures of the affluent, but also to their well-being and to human culture. In our time, nearly all severe poverty could be eradicated at a cost to the affluent that is truly trivial.” YearsHumansWellsHas BeensTodayHumanityCulturePleasurePovertyFailingCostStandardsPercentHundredYears AgoWell BeingOur TimeSevereCould Have BeenStandards Of LivingAffluent Author:Thomas Pogge