This map may be used to show areas in which biodiversity is threatened. Areas where high poverty and high population density coincides with high biodiversity may indicate areas in which poor people likely have no other choice than to unsustainably extract resources, in turn threatening biodiversity. The map has been produced from three primary data sources – stunted growth data collected on first level administrative units from FAO (FAO 2004), population density from LandScan (LandScan, 2002), and areas of high biological significance (major tropical wilderness and biodiversity hotspots) from Conservation International (Christ et al., 2003).
The root of success for developing terrorists out of Muslim communities lies with the lack of quality of life of the people and the ability of terrorist organizers to disgruntle citizens enough to turn on their government.
Causes of Global Poverty
Half the world — nearly three billion people — live on less than two dollars a day.
The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the poorest 48 nations (i.e. a quarter of the world’s countries) is less than the wealth of the world’s three richest people combined.
Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names.
Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn’t happen.
1 billion children live in poverty (1 in 2 children in the world). 640 million live without adequate shelter, 400 million have no access to safe water, 270 million have no access to health services. 10.6 million died in 2003 before they reached the age of 5 (or roughly 29,000 children per day).
IT HAS BEEN NOTED IN THE PAST, that the USA frequently 'buys' it's national security by providing life and health to other nations still unable to develop their own economies to prevent people to desperately turn to terrorist regimes as a purpose in life with the precepts of 'jihad.'
The USA needs to stop providing illegal wars as a cause for the escalation of terrorist networks throughout the world.
No war is going to solve the moral answers to ending terrorist networks.
The New UN Vision In Somalia 2009 (click on)
...Thus, stabilization should be a ground-up process beginning at the community level and extending all the way up to the national level. “If you don’t have a boss, no one is going to solve your problem,” he said, citing the importance of the new system of electing district level officials, which he hopes will ensure stability.
The international community must also play its part, Laroche urged, saying that “we need to convince people that things can change in Somalia” and support fledgling institutions. He expressed hope that the thousands of expected African Union (AU) peacekeepers would be deployed to Somalia as soon as possible....
Building a peaceful world starts from the ground up and does not demand chronic war without purpose, direction or goals.
