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The Third Freedom - Ending Hunger in Our Time (Paperback)
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The Third Freedom - Ending Hunger in Our Time (Paperback)
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In his 1941 State of the Union address, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt described a future world founded on four essential
freedoms - freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from
want, and freedom from fear. Sixty years later, nearly 20 percent
of the earth's population are still seeking the third freedom,
"which," Roosevelt said, "translated into world terms, means
economic understanding which will secure to every nation a healthy
peacetime life for its inhabitants - everywhere in the world." In
The Third Freedom, former three-term Democratic senator George
McGovern describes his strategy to end world hunger in our time.
When McGovern was the Democrats' nominee for president in 1972, 35
percent of the people in the world were hungry. By 1996, that
figure was cut in half. Now, McGovern says, is the time to end
world hunger entirely. "Ending it (hunger)," he says, "is a greater
moral imperative now than ever before, because for the first time
humanity has the instruments in hand to defeat this cruel enemy at
a very reasonable cost." McGovern raises two central questions:
first, what would it cost for the nations of the world to end
hunger and second, what would be the cost if hunger is allowed to
persist at its present levels? McGovern concludes, "I can think of
no investment that would profit the international community more
than erasing hunger from the face of the earth." We have the
ability to end hunger, McGovern says, now it's just a matter of
finding the leadership.
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