Name: 【TED】Bono: The good news on poverty (Yes, there's good news) (Bono: The good news on poverty (Yes, there's good news))
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Translator: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Morton Bast

Chris Anderson asked me if I could put the last 25 years

of anti-poverty campaigning into 10 minutes for TED.

That's an Englishman asking an Irishman to be succinct.

I said, "Chris, that would take a miracle."

He said, "Bono, wouldn't that be a good use of your messianic complex?"

Then I thought, let's go even further than 25 years.

Let's go back before Christ, three millennia,

to a time when, at least in my head, the journey for justice,

the march against inequality and poverty really began.

civilization just getting started on the banks of the Nile,

some slaves, Jewish shepherds in this instance,

proclaimed to the Pharaoh, sitting high on his throne,

"We, your majesty-ness, are equal to you."

You, your miserableness, have got to be kidding."

And they say, "No, no, that's what it says here

Cut to our century, same country, same pyramids,

They turn a social network from virtual to actual,

the aftermath of the Arab Spring has been,

neither to oversell the role of technology,

but these things have given a sense of what's possible

when the age-old model of power, the pyramid,

gets turned upside down, putting the people on top

and the pharaohs of today on the bottom, as it were.

It's also shown us that something as powerful

as information and the sharing of it can challenge inequality,

more importantly, what's not, so we can fix it,

facts that if we hear them and heed them could help us

meet the challenge that Nelson Mandela made

when he asked us to be that great generation

that overcomes that most awful offense to humanity,

The only thing singing today would be the facts,

Enter the evidence-based activist, the factivist.

humanity's long, slow journey of equality,

Look at the pictures these data sets print.

Since the year 2000, since the turn of the millennium,

there are eight million more AIDS patients

getting life-saving antiretroviral drugs.

Malaria: There are eight countries in sub-Saharan Africa

that have their death rates cut by 75 percent.

For kids under five, child mortality, kids under five,

That's a rate of 7,256 children's lives saved each day.

Let's just stop for a second, actually, and think about that.

Have you read anything anywhere in the last week

that is remotely as important as that number? Wow.

that most people don't seem to know this news.

Seven thousand kids a day. Here's two of them.

to Dr. Patricia Asamoah -- she's amazing --

and the Global Fund, which all of you financially support,

And the Global Fund provides antiretroviral drugs

that stop mothers from passing HIV to their kids.

This fantastic news didn't happen by itself.

It was fought for, it was campaigned for,

And this great news gives birth to even more great news,

The number of people living in back-breaking,

soul-crushing extreme poverty has declined

from 43 percent of the world's population in 1990

Now, the rate is still too high -- still too many people

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