Ask small questions and you get small answers; ask BIG questions, and you start to see the BIG picture. The United Nations, big NGOs and huge corporations have lots of answers, but are they asking the right questions? 

Right now the UN and co. are building up to telling the world that they can solve global poverty by 2030 with what is essentially business as usual – endless growth of the global economy, with some trickle-down to the poorest. But there’s a problem with this story; it’s irresistible, it’s glittery it’s loud… but it’s just not true.

 We can’t change their big marketing plan, but by asking three good questions, in as many places as possible before world leaders meet in New York on 25 September, we can help expose the root causes of poverty and encourage people to see the bigger picture.

1. How is poverty created?

2. Why is growth the only answer?

3. Who’s developing who?

Here’s how you can help:

Step one: watch and share the “How To Feel Good About Poverty” video so that 1 million people are exposed to the BIG questions about poverty by the time of the UN summit on 25th September.

http://therules.org/petition/the-big-questions-about-poverty/

Everyone loves the idea of a world without poverty, but what the UN is proposing for the next 15 years with their Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can’t work. We know this because between 1990 and 2010 global GDP increased by 217%, but the number of people living in hunger and poverty actually increased.

Since 2000 when the UN’s Millennium Development Goals were set, the global economy has grown, but left 60% of the world’s population living in poverty and contributed to the continued destruction of the planet.

How can we sustain growth when we’d need 4.1 earths for everyone to live like an American? And if growth works, why does all the money end up in the hands of the few? - Even now the 85 richest people in the world have the same amount of money as the poorest three billion and 18 times more money flows out of the global south every year than trickles into it.

We need to cut through the fanfare, celebrity endorsements and photo ops and start asking these three BIG QUESTIONS, because if we can expose the root causes of poverty we can get real answers about how to stop creating it.

Watch and share our short video before the UN Summit on 25th September and help as many people as possible to start asking BIG questions.

http://therules.org/petition/the-big-questions-about-poverty/

If you want to know more about the Poverty Is Created campaign, you might like to read 'How to feel good about poverty'.