Cautious thought

When I reach for the "send" button, having crafted 600 plus words,  attempting to elevate one persons understanding to a level where, conversation takes over. 
(I often have to give Virgin a nod to expect a heavy load of incoming emails to prevent them crashing. Up to now we have been lucky and my in-box hasn't been swamped with blog hungry correspondents questioning me, or my reasoning, or simply suggesting a reasoning of their own to the problems which are common world wide. I am always happily surprised by the breadth of knowledge and your willingness to spend time getting thoughts down).{I wish}.[Another of those dreams]. 
A blog is one persons perspective. many blogs begin to reveal a trend of thought outside the Washington Beltway or the Westminster Bubble and are valuable in supporting our flagging perspective on human relations.

The world is heavily unbalanced not only in the centuries old problems of being born to a poor family in Africa or India, for which there seems little one can do but hope that through education people limit their progeny and so better fit the economic prescription forced upon them by a lack of food due to the poor soil and harsh climatic conditions.
'Aid' seems to make matters worse, even efforts to counter diseases like malaria only increase the stock of people brought into the horrific position where there is no chance of self sufficiency. The cycle of poverty and deprivation ensures that we will continue to see the desperation of people living there.
For ourselves our own future is held in the hands of a few. The bankers and the politicians who wield almost total power through the Global Economy, the Central Banks and their ability to make far reaching decisions such as Quantitative Easing, now being withdrawn as I write, the consequences of which are unforeseen but will in one way or another have an effect on every household across the globe.
It could and is argued that, since most of it is out of our hands why bother to concern ourselves with it, que sera, but as in almost anything, knowledge  is strength to your arm. or at least to your brain and the mind, and we are better able to understand our condition if we know the reasons behind the changes however apoplectic we are, we can cool ourselves with cautious thought.
Maybe that's another Buddhist trait ?