Highly significant: "Water - the essential ingredient for life on this planet
After the headline part they explain it better, but having a headline that "water is becoming rare", is just silly. A better way of phrasing it might be "the infrastructure for creating a distributing clean fresh water isn't keeping up with demand", but I'm not even sure that's true. Sure a lot of people don't have access to good water, but that's always been true, at least by modern rich country standards for what constitutes good water. I'm not sure the number of people without such access is going up, and I think it unlikely that the percentage of the world's population without such access is going up.
Which doesn't mean there isn't a problem. Quite a few places have problems with aquifers, and alternatives are usually a lot more expensive.
Highly significant: According to UNICEF, 25,000 children die each day due to poverty.
I think this doesn't get a lot of attention because it isn't "news". It isn't new, it isn't a change. It isn't different than it was before. In terms of news, more of the world is being lifted out of extreme poverty, so the actual news is in a sense good (perhaps the recession has slowed this down or even stopped it for a time, but I doubt its broken the trend). Perhaps that news should get more attention, but its a slow process in terms of the news cycle (look over decades and you can see dramatic improvements, but day to day things look the same, except when some disaster or war happens and than they look worse.
I notice that the news stories you think should get more attention, pretty much all are either chronic problems, or slowly developing issues. I agree that more attention should be paid to these types of issues in general, but news is about dramatic new changes or information (even if its just the dramatic new change in some celebrities dating relationships, or the discovery of their drug addiction), and that's unlikely to change. |
