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How many times do we hear the phrase “Charity begins at home”? It’s usually a way of saying “Don’t worry about people who are suffering elsewhere in the World – it’s nothing to do with us”. But isn’t it?
We live in a world of haves and have-nots. There are large inequalities in wealth within societies, but far greater inequalities across the World as a whole. Those huge global inequalities have invariably come about because of historic imperialism, slavery, and the taking of other people’s natural resources by force. The comparatively wealthy lifestyles that we in the developed world enjoy has come at a price – a price that has generally been borne by others who live far away.
Global conferences on tackling poverty will only ever scratch the surface as long as developed countries fail to see what they owe to the poorer countries for their past actions. The legacy we’ve left on much of the world is to leave it depleted of its natural wealth. Still today, many of the poorer nations of the World are homes to western corporations who are exploiting both natural and human resources to produce more goods for western consumers.
We need a global system of wealth redistribution, which seeks to systematically eradicate world poverty and rebalance wealth inequalities. That means that some of the luxuries the people of the wealthier nations have come to expect need to be given up – not out of charity; just out of fairness, and a moral responsibility to give back what we have taken from others and allow them to live.

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The greater the distance, the less empathy – is that really the way it must be? No comprehension of what others endure – we deny our involvement in the plight of the poor. Our empires were built on other people’s graves – we stole all their land and turned them into slaves. Our wealth has resulted from mass genocide. Our cities bear the scars of those who have died. The World has enough for everyone’s need, but global wealth distribution is feeble indeed. It’s not charity – it’s an obligation to repay what was stolen creating this nation.

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