Donald L. Allen, M.M.
Distribution of World Resources: An Educalional Approach The annual income for two-thÚ¡ds of the world's inhabitants is $200 or less. The au thor describes an ingeniou.s method by which each of us can get a feel for these impoverished neighborhoods in our global village.
Recent headlines or media-stories about hunger and starvation, the energy crisis and unsure supplies of basic non-renewable resources have left few of us with any doubt as to the critical straits which we, as a global society, find ourselves attempting to manoeuvre through at present. We fee! a sense of confused urgency about truly discerning the breadth and scope of problems which beset us and an uneasy or unwelcome powerlessness in attempting to fashion an appropriate response as Catholic Christians. There can be no doubt of the fact that a fiscal and resource imbalance exists in our world today that is both frightening and discouraging. If the gap between the "haves" and the "have-nots" continues to accelerate in an adverse manner, how shall there ever exist the justice and peace that sa many cali for so eloquently? We find a growing minority of people in the world, and often in each nation, controlling a larger and growing share of the wealth and resources, the means for a deeent and dignified !ife for us ali. There are elites in each country and corporate executives on interlocking directorates who together preside over an international economie hegemony de183