Completed: 4/4/2023
Recommendation: Highly Recommended
Recommended By: Nobody
Review:
This book steps from documenting a problem to identifying actions to resolve the problem. There is no doubt that Desmond works to reduce human suffering. He provides suggestions to resolve that suffering. He is committed to that work. He accurately identifies that the cost to implement his suggestions is neither trivial nor huge. He laments that this work has not already begun. He is right on all counts. His efforts to tie poverty to other issues, like climate change are both self-defeating (companies advertise their climate supporting efforts without really making any changes and polish the turd in doing so) and not answers (he has identified so many issues that it is very difficult to support any company). The problem is that poverty is pervasive. I think his stronger argument, simply that it should not exist, is much stronger then the whack-a-mole approach of buycotting. Perhaps his strongest argument is to remind us that we live in plenty and politicians who talk about diminishing resources in areas like food, shelter, and clothing are extremists at best and liars at worst.
