http://www.idealistnews.com/IdealistNews: All things nonprofit - links about nonprofit organizations, grant writing, fundraising, how technology and social media can benefit nonprofits. Want to help change the world? Check us out at http://www.idealist.org/more Read our Vision here - http://idealist.org/visionhttp://thumbs.reddit.com/t5_2qlfy.png?v=676656cd70da412b7f6cfe6f8c782285http://www.idealistnews.com/http://www.idealistnews.com/comments/80s1d/for_the_first_time_in_history_it_is_now_within/http://www.idealistnews.com/comments/80s1d/for_the_first_time_in_history_it_is_now_within/Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:08:12 -07002009-02-27T08:08:12.662988-07:00<table> <tr><td> <a href="http://www.idealistnews.com/comments/80s1d/for_the_first_time_in_history_it_is_now_within/"><img src="http://thumbs.reddit.com/t3_80s1d.png" alt="For the first time in history, it is now within our reach to eradicate world poverty and the suffering it brings. Yet around the world, a billion people struggle to live each day on less than many of us pay for bottled water." title="For the first time in history, it is now within our reach to eradicate world poverty and the suffering it brings. Yet around the world, a billion people struggle to live each day on less than many of us pay for bottled water." /></a> </td><td> submitted by <a href="http://www.idealistnews.com/user/qgyh2"> qgyh2 </a> <br/> <a href="http://zyozy.org/blog/2009/02/16/the-reality-of-extreme-poverty/">[link]</a> <a href="http://www.idealistnews.com/comments/80s1d/for_the_first_time_in_history_it_is_now_within/">[comment]</a> </td></tr></table>For the first time in history, it is now within our reach to eradicate world poverty and the suffering it brings. Yet around the world, a billion people struggle to live each day on less than many of us pay for bottled water.