Invader Zim
6th October 2003, 22:15
Take a look at this: -
"The number of people living out their days in the squalor of a slum is almost one billion, the United Nations says - one-sixth of the world's population. "
"By 2050, the UN says, there may be 3.5 billion slumdwellers, out of a total urban population of about six billion.
"In 2001, it says, 924 million people, 31.6% of the world's urban population, lived in slums, most of them in developing countries."
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39416000/jpg/_39416090_slum1_un_203.jpg
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39416000/jpg/_39416094_slum3_un_203.jpg
What really shocks me is how capitalists support a system which causes so much suffering. How can the defend globalisation when it causes this? Whats even more Ironic is that the UN are actually going to try and introduse even more globalisation and increase its efficency to try and soleve the very problems its caused...
"Dr Tibaijuka told BBC News Online: "Globalisation is a work in progress, and it needs to be regulated. We have to try to maximise its benefits - it would be naive to say there's nothing we can do to control its downside." "
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3161812.stm
"The number of people living out their days in the squalor of a slum is almost one billion, the United Nations says - one-sixth of the world's population. "
"By 2050, the UN says, there may be 3.5 billion slumdwellers, out of a total urban population of about six billion.
"In 2001, it says, 924 million people, 31.6% of the world's urban population, lived in slums, most of them in developing countries."
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39416000/jpg/_39416090_slum1_un_203.jpg
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39416000/jpg/_39416094_slum3_un_203.jpg
What really shocks me is how capitalists support a system which causes so much suffering. How can the defend globalisation when it causes this? Whats even more Ironic is that the UN are actually going to try and introduse even more globalisation and increase its efficency to try and soleve the very problems its caused...
"Dr Tibaijuka told BBC News Online: "Globalisation is a work in progress, and it needs to be regulated. We have to try to maximise its benefits - it would be naive to say there's nothing we can do to control its downside." "
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3161812.stm