Have you ever wondered what controls this world around us? Why certain things happen while others do not? What it is that drives particular events to occur on earth and others to not? Today I am going to discuss this very subject.

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Have you ever wondered what controls this world around us? Why certain things happen while others do not? What it is that drives particular events to occur on earth and others to not? Today I am going to discuss this very subject.

This world is full of so many opportunities. Then why is it that some people did not have any at all. What made one human different from another, causing one to suffer while another prospered? What is the root to the apparent inequalities on earth? I came to the conclusion that the way people compete over money and power is where the difficulty lies. We are a major part of the problem.

Unfortunately this aggression is an innate tendency. The natural world is full of this competition and in fact this is what drives evolution and progress. For example, if you leave a piece of bread out in the open air, it will almost immediately become consumed by various bacteria and micro-organisms, all competing mindlessly to exploit this resource. The ironic thing is that these colonies always fall and die because they are poisoned by there own toxins. These packets of life symbolise, to frightful accuracy, human behaviour. The bacteria are not prepared to individually compromise, or sacrifice, for the benefit of the group. They have no sense of the greater good.

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Does this behaviour not seem similar to the way in which politicians scramble to exploit various resources or to take advantage of a particular circumstance? These leaders have only there countries well being in mind. However, their actions symbolise what we want to be done. We are the ones who apparently chose them. We are the ones that tolerate and in doing so encourage their actions. We in the end are the root of the problem.

As a consequence, regions such as Africa have the highest levels of endemicity in the world while pharmaceutical companies in the ...

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