Sentences with phrase «poorest nations on earth»

It has a population of 3.2 million and is one of the poorest nations on earth with GDP per capita of just $ 1,000, partly a result of the civil war that seethed there for 14 years and left 150,000 people dead.

@ Carol — I read yesterday that that means Bangladesh and Burkina Faso, coincidentally the two poorest nations on earth.

How well I remember that day not long ago when I sat next to a self - described «missionary» to one of the poorest nations on earth who was complaining about the cost in that country of imported American breakfast cereal and other imported American food.

Despite being one of the poorer nations on earth, Laos is a very safe country to travel in.

Not exact matches

We moderns have rediscovered that Jesus was the poor man par excellence, that he came for the poor, that it is to the poor that he promised the Kingdom, that the poor man on earth in fact represents Jesus Christ; and we remember that the parable in Matthew 25 (on the judgment of nations) is the central text of the revelation.

At least seven immense, interdependent threats to the quality of life on spaceship earth continue to escalate: the population explosion; the widening gulf between rich and poor nations; massive malnutrition (caused mainly by economic injustice, which produces maldistribution of available food); environmental pollution and degradation; the depletion of the irreplaceable resources of our finite planet; the growing threat of nuclear terrorism and eventual holocaust (with the equivalent of one and a half million Hiroshima - sized bombs in the arsenals of the world); and the worldwide tendency for the fruits of science and technology to be used without ethical responsibility.

Ironically, dictator Raúl Castro had just greeted Pope Francis at the airport with a long speech that had less to do with his visit than with praising the failed ideology that has made Cuba one of the poorest and most repressive nations on earth.

The Green Party and I are running on a progressive agenda of helping the poor and the middle class gain democratic control of society so that we can equitably distribute the wealth that is being produced, and to stop the plutocracies of this nation and world from exploiting Earth's resources anymore than they already have.

While the world believes they are a poor third world nation, in reality they are the most technologically - advanced society on Earth thanks to an ancient meteorite containing «vibranium.»

i.e. reducing the impact of floods, drought and storms on the poorest nations of the earth.

«Given the quantifiable impacts of climate change in India and other developing nations in the coming decades, both rich and poor countries should be ramping up our efforts to combat global climate change instead of turning our backs on commitments we have made to the international community,» said Steven J. Davis, an earth system scientist at the University of California Irvine and one of the partners in the Science Advances study.

Climate change is a moral crisis because every time governments of wealthy nations fail to act, it sends a message that we in the global north are putting our immediate comfort and economic security ahead of the suffering and survival of some of the poorest and most vulnerable people on Earth.

In a sane world, the news that broke from Paris this week would have led front pages everywhere, as the major industrialized nations, responding to pressure from the poorest and most climate - threatened countries on Earth, voiced support for the goal of limiting warming to an improbable 1.5 degrees Celsius, rather than a disastrous two degrees.

And yet even in one of the wealthiest nations on earth the defences were inadequate and the response plan poor.

And when increasing GDP is unquestionably equated with progress and development — as has become the case in many nations both rich and poor — it simply feeds into the cult of more, which is at the root of humanity consuming on average 1.5 planet's worth of resources, and five Earth's resources in the US.

Charly Poppe, Trade Campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe said: «New technologies like solar panels and wind turbines will be crucial in setting poor countries on a climate - friendly development path, so developed nations need to grant free access to renewable energy and energy efficiency technology for the poorest countries.

June 4th 2007, Brussels - Friends of the Earth Europe warned today that unless European leaders take the lead and stand up to US President George Bush on climate change at the G8 talks in Heiligendamm, Germany this week, the eight most industrialised nations will let down the world's poorest nations.