Avarice and the world today

We live in a chaotic world today. A world that devours its own kind, a world with no mercy. For the moment I ponder to think and wonder if humanity has indeed lost the battle. I remember one day I was speaking to one of my friends from the US about the importance of starting a family and settle down. She bluntly told me that the thought of bringing children into a world like this today was a furthest dream to her. I know that they they are many people in the world today who think like that and in many ways they make sense. What's the point? After all what we hear on the news bulletins on a daily basis, what we watch on our television sets and read in newspapers. Wars here and there and hunger and famine in other parts of the world. It appears that as the years go by, man's capability for evil and carnage has multiplied. Death and destruction is something our eyes are getting used to. Part of the problem lies in avarice which is an excessive desire to acquire or posses more material wealth than one needs or deserves. It is being greedy, mean, acquisitiveness, cupid and covetousness. Its main principle is that one must lay his hands on much as he can and it does not matter who loses out. Avarice apparently is one of the deadly sins of the world today. As the bible states 'the love of money is the root of all evil...'. But is humanity beyond redemption? Have we already sealed our fate? I do not believe so. If we can hearken to the voice of God according to 2nd Chronicles chapter 7:14 I believe that the lord can have mercy on mankind and we will once again flourish and banish the misery that we see around the world.

My opinion

I have always thought what we can do to uplift our African people from the clutches of poverty hunger and malnutrition. As of now fellow Africans in the horn of Africa are facing starvation of untold magnitude which is threatening to tear the northern part of Africa apart. But what is the problem? Why is it that many African countries seem so vulnerable even to minor shocks? Africa is a continent well endowed with natural resources and by its sheer size it should be able to feed itself without any reliance on the outside world. The sheer sight of what is happening in Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia is too grim to behold. Where is the leadership in Africa? What are they saying or doing about this. The leadership in many African countries is always thinking of how to twist their constitutions so that they are elected into office in the next elections or so that they stay long in power and even those leaders that seem to have a degree of conscience cannot speak to their friends because they would need support from them against their own people in one way or anoter. Where is the New Economic Policy for African Development today with its proposed peer review mechanism? It is somewhere gathering dust because corrupt African brutes like Mugabe would not accept such a document. But it is time for African masses to rise up make demands from their leaders and fight for their own destinies. Life has only two choices-it is either you fight or you die and only cowards choose the latter.