Tell me why.

Tell me why. | Pointman's:
"Don’t they know how many of our own poor can no longer afford to heat their homes?
Don’t they know how many millions die in the developing world from malaria because we won’t allow them access to DDT? 
Don’t they know that a million children a year die or are simply blinded for life by withholding the distribution golden rice? 
Don’t they know how many lives could be saved by supplying the poor with drought and disease resistant GM seeds? 
Don’t they know that switching from growing food staples to growing biofuel crops for cars only the rich can afford has more than doubled prices of basic foods?
Don’t they know about the people killed in the food riots? 
Do they actually know anything?
Do they care anyway?
There’s no oily sophistry about those questions, no sophistication, no tricky debating traps, no guile, no hidden agenda but always an essential inhumanity to the silence or uneasy evasiveness with which they’re met.
I’ve raised an impolite subject.
The truth is people are not dying, they’re being killed and we’re the ones through inaction doing the killing. 
I make no apology for being so blunt because they’re needed questions, simple questions, brutal even, and yet there’s always that awkward silence in response to them."