If We Are Serious About Ending Poverty

[Orwellian_Ghost]

"If we are serious about ending poverty, we have to be serious about ending the systems that create poverty by robbing the poor of their common wealth, livelihoods and incomes. Before we can make poverty history, we need to get the history of poverty right."

"It’s not about how much wealthy nations can give, so much as how much less they can take."

- Vandana Shiva



"A system like the economic growth model we know today creates trillions of dollars of super profits for corporations while condemning billions of people to poverty. Poverty is not, as Sachs suggests, an initial state of human progress from which to escape. It is a final state people fall into when one-sided development destroys the ecological and social systems that have maintained the life, health and sustenance of people and the planet for ages."

"The reality is that people do not die for lack of income. They die for lack of access to the wealth of the commons."

- Vandana Shiva