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Peaceful Economy – About

“The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.” Albert Einstein

Our principle of a ‘Peaceful Economy’ is based on the belief that we need to look at the possibility of instituting fairer and more sustainable economic models in contrast to the current dominant ones which are becoming increasingly plutocratic, benefiting the banks, the financial institutions, and corporations, through shameless and obscene profiteering at the expense of other sections of society, non-humans, and the world’s resources. In a ‘Peaceful Economy’ power is taken away from individual banks and institutions and shifted towards governments in order to provide basic needs and rights for all their citizens.

Ethical Economy

There are already many organisations, groups and movements which aim to make the existing economic systems fairer. These include:

Ethical Banks
Ethical Investments
Corporate Social Responsibility
The Fair Trade Movements
Ethical Consumerism
Credit Unions
Local Economy Initiatives

Resource Based Economy

As a long-term alternative to the existing financial systems based on money and debt, The Venus Project has proposed a Resource-Based Economy based on the assertion that there are enough natural resources on the planet to provide everyone with basic needs.

Peaceful Economy

Whilst we agree with this as a potential long-term solution we feel that, in the meantime, billions of humans and non-humans will still suffer and die needlessly and the environment will still suffer much damage. A Peaceful Economy is our proposal for a more short to medium-term sustainable alternative for monetary reform which will give governments the sole right to all money creation in order to provide the basic needs and rights of all of its citizens. To accept that the world’s economy can be changed so radically it is vital to understand that all of the existing economic systems are social constructs.

Click here to view our Peaceful Economy Proposals.

Peaceful Creativity + Peaceful Diet + Peaceful Economy + Peaceful Interaction + Peaceful Living
The Peaceful Planet
It’s Time Change

WORLD POPULATION
6.8 billion

WORLD HUNGER
925 million people do not have enough to eat — more than the populations of USA, Canada and the European Union combined.

98% of the world's undernourished people live in developing countries.

Two-thirds of the world's hungry live in just 7 countries: Bangladesh, China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia and Pakistan.

WHERE IS HUNGER THE WORST?
Asia and the Pacific: 578 million
Sub-Saharan Africa: 239 million
Latin America and the Caribbean: 53 million
Near East and North Africa: 37 million
Developed countries: 19 million

WOMEN & CHILDREN
60 percent of the world's hungry are women.

50 percent of pregnant women in developing countries lack proper maternal care, resulting in over 300,000 maternal deaths annually from childbirth.

1 out of 6 infants are born with a low birth weight in developing countries.

A third of all childhood death in sub-Saharan Africa is caused by hunger.

Every five seconds, a child dies from hunger-related diseases.

POVERTY
1.4 billion people in developing countries live on $1.25 a day or less.

Rural areas account for three out of every four people living on less than $1.25 a day.

22,000 children die each day due to conditions of poverty.

HIV/AIDS & OTHER DISEASES
35 million people are living with HIV/AIDS.

65 percent of young people living with HIV/AIDS are women.

90 percent of all children and 60 percent of all women living with HIV are in sub-Saharan Africa.

More than 11 million children die each year from preventable health issues such as malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia.

AGRICULTURE
75 percent of the world's poorest people — 1.4 billion women, children, and men — live in rural areas and depend on agriculture and related activities for their livelihood.

50 percent of hungry people are farming families.

WATER
1.7 billion people lack access to clean water.

2.3 billion people suffer from water-borne diseases each year.

12 percent of the world's population uses 85 percent of its water, and none of the 12 percent lives in developing countries.

Source: The Hunger Project

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These are the numbers of animals killed worldwide by the meat, egg, and dairy industries since you opened this webpage. These numbers do NOT include the many millions of animals killed each year in vivisection laboratories. They do NOT include the millions of dogs and cats killed in animal shelters every year. They do NOT include the animals who died while held captive in the animal-slavery enterprises of circuses, rodeos, zoos, and marine parks. They do NOT include the animals killed while pressed into such blood sports as bullfighting, cockfighting, dogfighting, and bear-baiting, nor do they include horses and greyhounds who were exterminated after they were no longer deemed suitable for racing.

Many thanks to Gary Yourofsky at www.adaptt.org for the text and source code.