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To be clear, health should be a human right, housing should be a human right, food should be under health as a human right but let’s be serious it should be a separate human right so everyone has to acknowledge

Around the world 9million is so die every year from starvation (some 25,000 a day, many of them children) another 9 milion or so from air pollution, driving cars and.m burning fossil fuels. 50 kids a week are backed over in cars in the US alone, that's just backed over. Guns are the #1 killer of children , cars #2 in the US

https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/people-and-poverty/hunger-and-obesity/how-many-people-die-from-hunger-each-year

https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/planet-earth/air/air-pollution-deaths-per-year

50 US kids killed by Muslim terrorists, spend a trillion and invade, but good 'ol boys in trucks? make the trucks bigger and have at it... but can't spend a trillion to build good public transport and cycle ways so people.don't need to kill kids in cars.?

I think it's not unreasonable to suggest we don't really give a shit about "human rights"... anywhere in the world.

Professor David Boyd expressed it well when he was tasked by the UN to try and raise awareness about some of this with Governments around the world and as he said, he couldn't get a single eyebrow raised anywhere in the world

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/un-expert-human-rights-climate-crisis-economy

Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’