Hardly Any Famine Affects More Than 5

Japan Became An Imperialist Country In Many Ways, But That Was Much Later, After It Had Already Made Big Progress. I Don’t Think Japan’s Wealth Was Based On Exploiting China. Japan’s Wealth Was Based On Its Expansion In International Trade.

Hardly Any Famine Affects More Than 5 Percent, Almost Never More Than 10 Percent, Of The Population. The Largest Proportion Of A Population Affected Was The Irish Famine Of The 1840s, Which Came Close To 10 Percent Over A Number Of Years.

Poverty Is The Deprivation Of Opportunity.

There Are Some People Who Say That They’re Concerned Only With Poverty But Not Inequality. But I Don’t Think That Is A Sustainable Thought. A Lot Of Poverty Is, In Fact, Inequality Because Of The Connection Between Income And Capability—having Adequate Resources To Take Part In The Life Of The Community.

The Best Hope For Peace In The World Lies In The Simple But Far-reaching Recognition That We All Have Many Different Associations And Affiliations, And We Need Not See Ourselves As Being Rigidly Divided By A Single Categorization Of Hardened Groups, Which Confront Each Other.