TED2013
Bono 2: The good news on poverty (Yes, there's good news) (script)
Summary
The speaker Bono is Irish who received the TED prize on 2005 and he has tackled the anti-poverty campaigning for 25 years. In fact, there has been inequality and poverty from three millennia. At last, we can see the good news about it and it's speeding up. Some African countries are getting drugs to save from HIV and AIDS and from malaria, children started to be saved. The child mortality rate is decreasing. Thanks to the world financial support. People living in huge poverty is going to zero in 2030.
All people can choose their lives, it'll change despair to hope. However, the activities should be continued and there's still work to do. We face a new problem that is political corruption. In developing countries, oil is the most important resource but it shouldn't be controlled by government and companies. It should be distributed to people living there.
There's still work to do because the power of people gathering is so much stronger than their authority.
Words in this story
cynicism / doubt, irony
apathy / lack of interest
inertia / a tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged.
momentum / the quantity of motion of a moving body, measured as a product of its mass and velocity.
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