Why poverty is not bad as it it made out to be???

Poverty
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How many governments are trying to deal with it? How many so called scholars are devising ways to reduce it? But how many years will it take them to understand that poverty is not something that we have to fight against? How long will they keep on humiliating poor people? Poverty has actually helped humanity over the centuries .It is the fire which purifies gold? It is the stuff of which great people are made of.Just make a count of all people who have contributed to humanity and you will find that all of them have suffered some obstacle or the other in their early life.Actually such a survey has already been done and it has been found that out of 50 eminent personalities declared greatest in the past century on a poll,there was no one who did not possess atleast one of the following qualities-
1) They had lived in poverty.
2) They had been abused as a child..
3) They had been handicapped or under the influence of a deadly disease.
4) They had been prejudiced against.
Most of them had to suffer from more than one of these conditions but they overcame all of these and became a force to reckon with.So,Obstacles not lack of them maketh a great man.
So instead of diverting our minds towards reducing poverty and other some nonsense stuff it would do more good to us to divert our energy to more important stuff like reducing hunger,misery and other sufferings.Actually instead of humiliating the poor,the rich who store hoards of money in their Swiss bank accounts should be taken to task.They live all their life enjoying comfort which is derived from the money looted from the poor.Shouldn't they be held responsible towards society? In this respect I admire Bill Gates for the steps that he is taking to reduce deaths due to polio and AIDS in Asia and Africa.This is really admirable taking into context the Ambanis in our own country who have hardly done anything considering their stature.What have they done apart from gaining money from the rising sensex by selling their stocks and then buying them back again at low prices when the sensex falls? or for that matter What has any business house except the Tatas and the Birlas done anything for our country?
Recently Mukesh Ambani has unveiled a new plan for his big house in mumbai.This when mumbai has earned a notoriety for high realty prices and the poor sleeping on the pavements.Does he ahve no conscience which can guide him?
If we are proud of these people and of the fact that they stand so high on the Forbe's list then we are a sorry lot indeed.Actually we have done nothing to be proud of.Actually we have to ashamed of ourselves for thinking too much of ourselves.

Our future

All-Time Quote

“This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.”

Well a lot has been said about our future and I won't be pretty repeating much of this.
Our future is just not there.Those who are now 25-30 years of age may never live to see their grandchildren.We all have to embrace death someday but I think that day is not very far away about 50 years from now.
A famous poem by Robert Frost goes like this-

Some say the world will end in fire; Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To know that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.
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I am going to give 12 reasons why the Earth is doomed?-

1)More than a third of the natural world has been destroyed by humans over the past three decades.Another two-thirds will be destroyed in the next 50 years.After this how do you expect to survive?

2)Freshwater supplies have become scarce and polluted. Nations are blaming each other for food scarcity.

3) Using 1970 as a baseline year and giving it a value of 100, the index has dropped to a new low of around 65 in the space of a single generation. This Index denotes the level of pollution.

5) Between 1970 and 2002 forest cover has dwindled by 12 per cent.

6)We instead for investing in the security & welfare of our future are more interested in today's comfort cars and usage of fossil fuels.

7) We are more concerned how much the stock index fell rather than how closer we are inching towards death.

8) We instead of investing our time and money in research in reducing pollution are investing in new software for our computers and games for our iPods.

9)Most of people in U.S.A. think that pollution does not directly affect them? This shows our level of ignorance even in today's netizen world.

10)The level of seas has been continously been rising steadily since 1970 and if this continues by 2020 all coastal cities and by 2050 the whole world will be submerged.

11)Oscars are more widely seen in U.S. than any pollution-prevention programmme.

12) Instead of you doing about it you are reading this blog.

Now pep up and go and think in all the little ways that you can help your yet-to-be-born grandchildren.