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#24A STRUGGLING WITH A BASIC NEED: SUSTENANCE Seldom feeling playful or creative, my life is dominated by drudgery and struggle to provide necessities so I / my family can survive. This struggle often leaves me in a weakened state, but sometimes I pause and ask, “Are my / our sustenance needs being met, and are prospects good they’ll continue to be met in the future?” If the answer is no, then I must make changes. I fear the day when I have no choices, and death lurks nearby. (Note: poor people, especially those confronting injustice, may not accord people or nature the respect that they would if their lives were more rewarding.) |
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a spade WV Theme... |
...individual <---> nature |
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the theme is paired with: #24B Creative Expression to make Choice #47 in the Choices We Make cards |
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this theme as presented in older version of theme structure: version 1.0 version 2.0 & 3.0 is this theme new to version 4?--NO |
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click to look at the Project Worldview Cultural Literacy Encyclopedia Related Words, Beliefs, Background articles for the above choice |
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Project Worldview authored discussion, Worldview Watch related issues, songs, etc. |
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Wikipedia articles related to this theme: |
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| subsistence agriculture | Absolute Poverty | has employment issues | |
| Hunger | Homelessness | livelihood | |
| Poverty | Poverty Threshold | Drinking Water | |
| Squatting | Economic Inequality | ||
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worldview internal inconsistency related: Strongly valuing this theme and any of the themes in the list below is a contradiction: |
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| #20A Elitism
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#26A The Consumerist |
#26B More is Better Mentality / Abundance | #28A Hedonistic Orientation |
| #43 Seeking
Wealth & Power |
#102B Easy-Going,
Disorderly |
#202B Relaxed, Generous,
Loving |
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More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #24: Struggling With A Basic Need: Sustenance |
| The FAO's Special Programme on Food Security (UN agency seeks to cut world hunger in half) |
| Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative ("to build a multidimensional economic framework for reducing poverty grounded in people’s experiences and values") |
| Nomad Century--How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World by Gaia Vince (interview from NPR with author, August 27 2022) |
| Graphic detail world food –most of the world’s food is not eaten by humans (from The Economist June 25 2022) |
| Welfare in Poor Countries – Just Keep Us Alive (report from The Economist Feb 5 2022) |
| The pandemic has made homelessness more visible in many American cities (report from The Economist Aug 7 2021) |
| Hunger in the Arab World Feast, Fast, Famine (report in The Economist April 17 2021) |
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"Waste
Pickers -- Down in the Dumps" (report from The Economist
December 19 2020) |
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1 in 6 children lives in extreme poverty, World Bank-UNICEF analysis shows (from The World Bank October 20 2020) |
| "From Plague to Penury" (article from The Economist September 26 2020) |
| “Losing Hope in India” (story from Time magazine August 31 2020) |
| “Covid-19 and Global Poverty” (report from The Economist May 23 2020) |
| Africa: Food and Climate--Feeding Another Billion (report from The Economist March 28 2020) |
| Farming in Rwanda --After Subsistence, What? (article from The Economist May 18 2019) |
| Sanitation in India -- Outdoor Defecation (report from The Economist August 19 2017) |
| "Eight People Have Same Wealth as World's Poorest Half" by Kim Hlelmgaard (article in USA Today Jan 15 2017) |
| How the Other Tenth Lives (report on global poverty from The Economist October 8 2016) |
| Nigeria's Food Crisis (report from The Economist September 3 2016) |
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"Ending
Energy Poverty: Power to the Powerless" (report about bringing
electricity to the world's poorest in The Economist Feb 27 2016) |
| "Eradicating Disease" (report on the battle vs. seven diseases incl. malaria, news leader piece from The Economist October 10 2015) |
| "Poverty's Long Farewell" (report on goal of ending poverty worldwide by 2030 from The Economist Feb 28 2015) |
| "The Real Hunger Games" by Trudy Lieberman (article on USA elderly facing hunger from The Nation October 14 2013) |
| "Migrant Workers and America's Harvest of Shame" by Ralph Nader (Aug 2 2013 article on Common Dreams website) |
| Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat (Aug 30 2013 NY Times review by Deborah Sontag of novel about "Haiti's life or death struggles") |
| "Poverty--Not Always With Us" (article re ending extreme poverty by 2030, in The Economist June 1 2013) |
| "America Split in Two: Five Ugly Extremes of Inequality" by Paul Buchheit (March 25 2013 article on Common Dreams website) |
| With 50 Million Hungry in US, New Film Demands 'A Place at the Table' by Jason Kane (more about 2013 documentary) |
| Hinterland by Caroline Brothers (more from author's website on this 2011 novel about Afghan refugees crossing Europe) |
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Four Ways to Help The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier (2008 TED talk) |
| The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier (read excerpts of this 2007 book at Google Books) |
| Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters by Robert Neuwirth (more on this 2006 book from Google Books) |
| Working in the Shadows by Gabriel Thompson (read excerpts from this 2010 book at book's website) |
| "Unclean Water Claims More Lives Than War" (March 22, 2010 story from Environment News Service) |
| A Question of Sustenance, by Gary Stix (September 2007 Scientific American article) |
| A Dollar A Day (devoted to "examining poverty in developing nations" and "raising awareness of the plight of the poor") |
| Human Development Reports (website of this UN program) |
| UNICEF ("for every child: health, education, equality, protection") |
| Survival International (devoted to helping tribal people defend their lives, protect their lands, etc) |
| The Global Poverty Project (devoted to "catalyzing the movement to end extreme poverty") |
| Africa--The Global Face of Poverty, by Moraa Gitaa (2007 article posted on G21 "The World's Magazine") |
| "Virtual Visit to the Kpawa Community of Togo" (share their struggles, dreams, daily routines--from Plan USA) |
| My Own Four Walls (a video about kids and homelessness, from the non-profit Hear Us) |
| Meeting the Health Needs of the Very Poor |
| Poverty Around The World |
| Poverty: Challenging the Myths |
| Poverty in Third World Countries (photos) |
| Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research (British university's project) |
| Poverty in South Asia, by Imtiaz Alam (Feb 2007 article posted on the One World South Asia website) |
| "Rescuing the Bottom Billion Through the Control of Tropical Diseases" by Peter J. Hotez (2009 paper) |
| "Poor Nutrition Stunting Growth" (Nov 2009 BBC report on UNICEF study) |
| "A Village Woman's Legacy," by Jimmy Carter (article by former president in Time March 31 2008) |
| "Blueprint Brigade," by Bryan Walsh (article about Engineers Without Borders in Time December 10 2007) |
| Children and Poverty (homepage of campaign by CARE, "a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty") |
| Pictures of Third World Poverty, Hunger, Starvation |
| "Human Rights: More Than One Hundred Million Homeless Worldwide", by Gustavo Capdevila (news report) |
| Living on $1 a Day, article by Xanthe Scharff |
| Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir. (review of this 2013 book) |
| Personal Experiences of Homelessness |
| Nutrition and the Alleviation of Absolute Poverty in Communities, by Rainer Gross |
| 10 Things You Need to Know About Sanitation (about sanitation problems worldwide, from UN Water) |
| Poverty, Work, and Freedom by S. Rizvi, and D. Levine (book review) |
| The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (more about this 1998 novel in which an family transported to Africa wrestles with extreme poverty) |
| A Tree Grows in Booklyn by Betty Smith (1943 novel about growing up poor in America) |
| National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty |
| Project Health (dedicated to "breaking the link between poverty and poor health") |
| Poverty Alleviation as a Business |
| The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, by Jeffrey Sachs |
| Migration Policy Institute |
| quotes related to subsistence |
| quotes related to poverty |
| quotes related to suffering |
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"As you shop in "The Reality Marketplace" avoid
spending your "reality cash" too early, before you have
seen
everything. "
from Coming of Age in the Global Village,
by
Stephen P. Cook, with Donella H. Meadows.