Needless Deaths

It is estimated that the total deaths from preventable poverty is conservatively greater than from all wars, revolutions, murders, accidents, and suicides in the 20^th century.

In the past 20 years, and since the 1990 World Summit for Children where the promise to end poverty was pledged, total deaths from poverty eclipse all the above categories of death in all known human history.

A million children die every month from preventable poverty.

It is a common misperception that disease is responsible for most illness, when in fact toxins and pollutants in the environment are a major source of illness and reduced life spans globally. Toxic pollution affects the health of more than 100 million people, shortening their productive life spans by an astonishing 12.7 years on average.

Unlike diseases, toxins and pollutants like lead, mercury, chromium, radionuclides and pesticides were created by humans and are often improperly disposed of in a classic example of fouling our own nests.

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