Planet Earth. The destruction of our home. Chilean miners.

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Naturally, we feel concerns for the trapped Chilean miners.
What is not natural, is the way that so many of us, encouraged by a sensationalist media, seek out dramatic events of no personal or direct impact.
Why do we do this?
Is Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder a virus?
The answer is much more disturbing.
Books and movies are proof that a distant and impersonal drama, can be enjoyable and desirable.
It is obvious that we are choosing to distance ourselves from dramatic and devastating events, that we are collectively responsible for.

What you should be much more concerned about today and tomorrow.
Please watch this documentary about Planet Earth. This is your home. You should be very concerned.

Educate yourself and others around you to concerns of direct relevance. Concerns of far more importance than the drama in a single Chilean mine.
We should be concerned that the miners were employed 2,300 feet down inside planet earth, devastating our home for profits.
The earths minerals are a precious resource, there is only a finite amount of minerals in the earth's crust.

We should concern ourselves with the millions of people who die of hunger every year.
Hunger mortality statistics
* On the average, 1 person dies every second as a result, either directly or indirectly, of hunger - 4000 every hour - 100 000 each day - 36 million each year - 58 % of all deaths (2001-2004 estimates).[9][10][11]
* On the average, 1 child dies every 5 seconds as a result, either directly or indirectly, of hunger - 700 every hour - 16000 children die each as a result, either directly or indirectly, of hunger - 6 million each year - 60% of all child deaths (2002-2008 estimates).[12][13][14][15][16]

9. Jean Ziegler. “The Right to Food: Report by the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Mr. Jean Ziegler, Submitted in Accordance with Commission on Human Rights Resolution 2000/10”. United Nations, February 7, 2001, p. 5. “On average, 62 million people die each year, of whom probably 36 million (58 per cent) directly or indirectly as a result of nutritional deficiencies, infections, epidemics or diseases which attack the body when its resistance and immunity have been weakened by undernourishment and hunger.”.

10. Commission on Human Rights. “The right to food : Commission on Human Rights resolution 2002/25”. Office Of The High Commissioner For Human Rights, United Nations, April 22, 2002, p. 2. “every year 36 million people die, directly or indirectly, as a result of hunger and nutritional deficiencies, most of them women and children, particularly in developing countries, in a world that already produces enough food to feed the whole global population”.

11. United Nations Information Service. “Independent Expert On Effects Of Structural Adjustment, Special Rapporteur On Right To Food Present Reports: Commission Continues General Debate On Economic, Social And Cultural Rights”. United Nations, March 29, 2004, p. 6. “Around 36 million people died from hunger directly or indirectly every year.”.

12. Food and Agriculture Organization Staff. “The State of Food Insecurity in the World, 2002: Food Insecurity : when People Live with Hunger and Fear Starvation”. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2002, p. 6. “6 million infant children, die each year as a result of hunger.”

13. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Economic and Social Dept. “The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2004: Monitoring Progress Towards the World Food Summit and Millennium Development Goals”. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2004, p. 8. “Undernourishment and deficiencies in essential vitamins and minerals cost more than 5 million children their lives every year”.

14. Jacques Diouf. “The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2004: Monitoring Progress Towards the World Food Summit and Millennium Development Goals”. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2004, p. 4. “one child dies every five seconds as a result of hunger and malnutrition”.

15. Food and Agriculture Organization, Economic and Social Dept. “The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2005: Eradicating World Hunger - Key to Achieving the Millennium Development Goals”. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005, p. 18. “Hunger and malnutrition are the underlying cause of more than half of all child deaths, killing nearly 6 million children each year – a figure that is roughly equivalent to the entire preschool population of Japan. Relatively few of these children die of starvation. The vast majority are killed by neonatal disorders and a handful of treatable infectious diseases, including diarrheoa, pneumonia, malaria and measles. Most would not die if their bodies and immune systems had not been weakened by hunger and malnutrition moderately to severely underweight, the risk of death is five to eight times higher.”.

16. Human Rights Council. “Resolution 7/14. The right to food”. United Nations, March 27, 2008, p. 3. “6 million infant children still die every year from hunger-related illness”.

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