Jeffrey Sachs, a prominent US economist and a special adviser to the UN secretary general, argues in a new book that extreme poverty could be eradicated by 2025.
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"Currently, more than eight million people around the world die each year because they are too poor to stay alive. Yet our generation, in the US and abroad, can choose to end extreme poverty by the year 2025," he writes.
Assume the truth of these propositions: that extreme poverty can be eradicated within 20 years; and that our generation can
choose to do it. In that case, how could we conceivably choose
not to do it? This seems like a basis for a movement of millions. Imagine it: millions - mobilizing, demonstrating, putting constant pressure on their political representatives, not being willing to 'move on'; so that those who die 'because they are too poor to stay alive' stop dying for this reason. Now, wouldn't that be something?
