I wish I could hate ISIS to death and find its teenage soldiers a thousand excuses.

Education is the key to the eradication of poverty NGOs should work together towards sustainable development at the local level so that the poor will not be forced to spend their lives and energy on basic survival.

Yields, on average, barely support survival, and crop failures are common and deadly, while long term global climate change, caused mainly by high energy consumption in the rich countries, may be exacerbating the frequency and severity of droughts.

Without significant systemic changes in the current economic system of wealth creation at all levels, poverty cannot be eradicated for the large percentage of the world's people who suffer trying to survive on less than 1 or 2 daily.