Shane Claiborne (again!)
What’s crazy is that the US, less than six percent of the world’s population consumes nearly half of the world’s resources and that the average American consumes as much as 520 Ethiopians do, while obesity is declared a ‘national health crisis’.*
Someday war and poverty will be crazy, and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.
*Shane Claborne is American and writes from a US perspective.
To be fair IMHO we in Europe also add to the huge imbalance in the use of the world’s resources, and while obesity is less of a problem here (due in part to the fact that i) we eat out less often and ii) portion sizes are generally much smaller than I’ve encountered in north America), we struggle with diet-related health issues such as hypertension which is a prime cause of strokes.
Claiborne’s book Irresistible Revolution: Living Life as an Ordinary Radical sure is giving me food for thought – but what am I going to do with that knowledge/awareness. That’s the question.
January 27th, 2010 at 9:07 pm
As an American, I am heartily embarrassed about that statistic. Arggggg.
February 13th, 2010 at 12:54 am
Check out what Shane has to say in The Ordinary Radicals documentary: http://www.theordinaryradicals.com/
February 13th, 2010 at 9:57 am
looked at the trailer … and thought yeah I’m tired of playing church …we need to live our lives – I need to live my life – quietly, behind the scenes, as an ordinary radical – a commited disciple of Jesus bringing heaven to earth.