http://www.noelheikkinen.com/2007/11/14/world-poverty-stats/ Home of Noel Heikkinen's thoughts, audio, photos, video, etc. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:14:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://www.noelheikkinen.com/2007/11/14/world-poverty-stats/comment-page-1/#comment-162403 1.5 Billion « Mindy Richmond - On The 8’s Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:02:08 +0000 http://www.noelheikkinen.com/2007/11/14/world-poverty-stats/#comment-162403 [...] The weird coincidence (or not so much) is that last night I watched that movie and it was about world poverty and this morning I read this post in my bloglines about the same subject. Now this coincidence may just be the affects of some media campaign but does that mean I should tune it out like I do with all the other information I am bombarded with? I can’t end world poverty. I can’t even make a significant dent in it, but the message I heard last night was that we can’t use that as an excuse to just give up. We must not compromise or become complacent on matters of life and death. [...] [...] The weird coincidence (or not so much) is that last night I watched that movie and it was about world poverty and this morning I read this post in my bloglines about the same subject. Now this coincidence may just be the affects of some media campaign but does that mean I should tune it out like I do with all the other information I am bombarded with? I can’t end world poverty. I can’t even make a significant dent in it, but the message I heard last night was that we can’t use that as an excuse to just give up. We must not compromise or become complacent on matters of life and death. [...]

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