Imacentristmoderate

Actually, the authoritative source of data on global poverty is the World Bank, whose data the UN relies on, as do most academics, NGOs, policy makers and others in the field.

http://data.worldbank.org/

Whose data were you using to back your claim that word poverty is “progressively worsening”?

*the fundies are a small minority of Protestant Christians.*

You should spend some time in the US bible belt. The fundies got George Bush jun. over the line to win as prez and one of the first things he did was cut family planning to places like Ethiopia. Some women landed up leaving their babies out for the hyenas, in desperation. At the time I read the reports in complete shock. Next alot of US schools had sex education cancelled and the pledge was introduced. The net result was one of the developed world's highest teen pregnancy rates. Some learn the hard way.

Rhian, Actually, your missing my point all of the authoritative sources of data on global poverty are the World Bank, the UN, academics, NGOs, policy makers and others in the field who are the 1% ruling left wing elites & therefore we know that they are lying. Why are you so desperate to help the 1% steal from the 99%?

Yabby, i hear where you are coming from but elections are won & lost by a minority of swinging voters. They also had plenty of spare time to think about relaxation like sex because we gave them food & water. if the bleeding hearts had left them alone they would still have a lower population.

Ima, the US bible belt is not just a small minority. They run whole states in the South.

As to your next point, I have no problem in being humanitarian, but we provide boatloads of food and plane loads of vaccines to the third world. Doing so without providing family planning at the same time, is very foolish and in fact creates a population explosion!

Imacentristmoderate

Ok, so if you rule out “authoritative sources of data on global poverty” including “the World Bank, the UN, academics, NGOs, policy makers”, who precisely do you think is competent to produce estimates of global poverty? I repeat my question:

Whose data were you using to back your claim that word poverty is “progressively worsening”?

imacentristmoderate,

"Ethiopia is in famine every year through over population, courtesy of Sir Bob Geldof."
Much as you'd like that to be true, it's completely false. Not only is Ethipoia not in famine, but the famine of the 1980s was causesd not by famine but by bad governance. The government could've fed its people, but chose to spend the money on weapons instead.

And saving lives does not cause overpopulation; the truth is almost the exact opposite! When survival is in doubt, people have as many children as they can to ensure that some of them will survive.