But these are naught but diseases, with the basic illness being disunity. A skilled physician might pay some attention to the symptoms, but must treat the disease. In this case, we might pay attention to the aforementioned plights, but rest assured; nothing will be solved until we eliminate the underlying disease of disunity. With moral education from childhood, we become fair, and with fairness and justice, unity is achieved, because we realise, we live in one world and we are one.

Until this is established, nothing will be permanently solved, even though we can eliminate world hunger using only 30 billion USD a year, (defense budget of the US alone is 737 Billion a year, and Forbes.com lists 18 people as of 2015 with fortunes over 30 billion USD). In fact, if everyone in the first world countries alone, gave 9cents a day, and that’s barely 13 percent of the world’s population, that would be 33 dollars a year and would be enough to eliminate hunger! There are loads of statistics to revel in: 85 of the richest own more than the 2 billion poorest, there is not an overpopulation since we could all fit shoulder to shoulder in part of Los Angeles, we need the wealth of 5 of the richest to eliminate illiteracy, a man in the Kalahari uses 12 litres of water a day while a man in North America uses over 18 just to brush his teeth (with the tap running) and can exceed using hundreds of litres daily(thanks to the water cycle, there is enough water to go round, but simply, POOR DISTRIBUTION, and powers that be keeping it that way), the negative impacts of charging your cell phone or eating meat are nothing compared to the environmental damage caused by fighter planes, and tanks, and artillery, yet civilians are supposed to feel guilty for using daily gadgets,  etc..the statistics show us the problem is not availability, or space, or resources, or time, or money, but rather of will! We do not have the will to help because we are not convinced WHY we should care about rainforests in Brazil when we live in Germany, or about the starving kids in Darfur while we live in Finland.

Baha’u’llah says to be as united as the fingers of one hand; as the parts of a body. One part shall not rest until the rest are at peace. Until we do this, there shall be no respite, even though we clearly have the ability to feed, clothe, educate and keep healthy every man, woman and child on earth, but yet we don’t! Simply because we are not united, and we are not united because we are not fair and we are not fair because we do not prioritise moral education.

Anyone who has effected a change did so with morality. Gandhi did not change the lives of nearly 400 million people with his law degree; he did so with his morality. Same with Mandela, or any other religious or secular civil rights advocate. Mathematically this means with a population of about 7 Billion, we need approximately 18 Gandhis to effect a change. This is feasible, but will not happen until we focus on morality.

The problems are not due to a lack of resources, but a lack of distribution (and people in power keeping it this way for obvious reasons), and the trials afflicting mankind are not limited to these symptoms; they are due to the underlying moral disease of disunity. Unite as the limbs of one body, and see the domino effect of problem-solving…