Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.

The quote “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed” aptly expressed by Mahatma Gandhi, elucidates that the nature earth has enough resources & means to meet the basic requirements of a man but it can’t serve the endless greed of man. The greed for more, often results into pernicious wound & massive exploitation of the downtrodden community of the society.

 
In Africa, countless atrocities have been committed on the oppressed class, the military junta & corrupt governments exploits the poor masses while waging war for the quest of infamous Blood Diamond. Mass human right violations are in peak in Africa. The continent inhabits one of the most poverty-stricken populations in the world. Although, Africa is very rich in mineral resources, the flow of wealth generated is concentrated in few hands.
Corruption is one of the main hurdles in providing the minimum basic requirements for every individual on the earth. Corruption engulfs many countries having a large population living under poverty line such as India & Pakistan. Everyone is entitled to minimum necessities of life by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as one of the human rights. When someones rights are violated, the perpetrators are usually people sitting behind the official desks. Greed is the driving force in every such circumstance.
There is yet another side of the coin, Billionaires such as Bill Gates & Warren Buffet had recently promulgated that they are going to donate half of their hard-earned wealth to charity for humanitarian causes while encouraging others to do the same.
We live in a world where 1% of the richest people owns 40% of total wealth. The high income countries contain 15.5 per cent of the world’s population with over 80 per cent of the global product. The global poor are 43 per cent of the world’s population with 1.2 per cent of the global product. It’s time to shun our greed & to comport philanthropy.