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To understand our current sins of earth-savaging, overconsuming, and overpopulating, we
have to look at facts that are, like the sun, too painful for our direct gaze. Instinctively we look
away.

Poverty
"The poverty of the poor is their ruin," says the Book of Proverbs. And the ruin is not just
material. Poverty rapes and kills the spirit of the poor. We underestimate its complexity and
cruelty. There are four dimensions of poverty:

(1) Material limit. Poverty does mean a lack of material necessities. For the one billion people in
"absolute poverty," the most basic essentials are critically lacking and death is fastening its grip on
them. Note, too, that fewer than 3 billion people could eat as we eat, i.e. on a North American
diet. We are almost 3 billion beyond that now. Limits have already been passed.

(2) Poverty strips the human spirit of its two indispensable prerequisites, the two things we cannot
do without. They are, I submit, respect and hope. The......

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