With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the disparity in resource allocation, emphasizing the importance of prioritizing humanitarian aid over warfare.
Bob Brown's quote reflects on the massive financial expenditures on war, suggesting that the same resources could instead be utilized to address critical global issues such as hunger, clean water, and education for children. It encourages a reevaluation of how priorities are set by nations, advocating for a shift towards compassionate action that directly benefits vulnerable populations.
In practice
This quote can be used during a charity event to emphasize the importance of redirecting funds to aid.
I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there's hope for many other changes.
We are all born bonded to nature; that's why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls.
The future will either be green or not at all.
None are so poor that they have nothing to give...and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.
As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.
She had to live in this bright, red gabled house with the nurse until it was time for her to die... I thought how little we know about the feelings of old people. Children we understand, their fears and hopes and make-believe.
We have embarked globally on a path of unsustainable development. Our lifestyles, the way we produce goods and services, are all part of a system that is completely unsustainable. I see solutions to climate change leading to a much larger philosophical shift in the way human society develops. We need a new matrix to define what human progress is.
Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before.
Being precedes Truth, and ... Truth precedes the Good.
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