SportRelief.

Some 68 years ago my parents had one child to give me the best opportunity in life from their limited finances. That or my emerging presence made them change their mind. They weren’t poor or rich either. In general developed countries have a third less children than the third world. It’s also reasonable to say that human over population is making unsustainable demands on our planet, mostly by us the 20% using 80%. The demands of a poor African family are miniscule compared with mine. So Sport Relief asks for our sympathy to redistribute our wealth to that African family on the basis every child should live and have what we have, or at least a little more. If our efforts are successful more African babies will survive to grow the population and have education, which they will absorb ravenously. In comparison our younger generation often see it as unnecessary and will join our labour market when it’s already over priced in the world market. In the last twenty years the only people who can afford to pay our labour rates is us, which is why we have been reduced to service industries serving ourselves, and why graduates work in Tescos. In the long term our life style is just as unsustainable as those African children, and when they come to fruition as a highly motivated and educated work force the boot will be on the other foot. Already Portuguese youngsters are moving to Mozambique to find opportunities because there are none at home. So in sustaining those poor African families we are fuelling the expansion of our already over populated planet and offering them the opportunities of our youth. Of course it would be callus of me to refuse them help but it would be equally callus of me to harm the planet and the future of my sons and their children. It’s not the easy emotional decision it appears to be.