Filthy Hands to Famished Mouths
Silent Screams of Desolation: Earth Crisis Unveils Global Injustice
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Third world squalor, inhuman conditions.
Refers to extremely poor living conditions in third-world countries.
Death stalks the have nots through depravation.
Describes how death affects those who lack basic necessities.
Open sewers, polluted water, monoxide consumes the air.
Highlights environmental issues such as polluted water and air.
Crowded into shanty structures. Born into a nightmare.
Portrays the harsh reality of being born into impoverished circumstances.
Starvation and execution. Starvation and execution.
Repeats the theme of suffering, emphasizing starvation and execution.
Scavenging in garbage piles, emaciated, malnourished.
Depicts people searching for food in garbage, facing malnutrition.
Most turn away from those below
Describes the indifference of most people to those in need.
pleading for sustenance. The horrors, children suffer below poverty.
Addresses the desperate pleas for food in the face of horrifying conditions.
Sickness, fear and ignorance, all needlessly.
Points out unnecessary suffering caused by sickness, fear, and ignorance.
Starvation and execution. Starvation and execution.
Reiterates the cycle of starvation and execution.
Lives that deserve a chance written off as useless.
Expresses frustration at lives deemed worthless and discarded.
Police death squads.
Introduces the idea of police death squads contributing to the problem.
Disappearances. Shots in the night, hidden graves;
Describes disappearances and violence, with victims left in hidden graves.
their victim's only inheritance. Discarded humanity surrounds discarded
Addresses the tragic inheritance of victims—discarded humanity.
humanity. Starvation and execution. Starvation and execution.
Repeats the theme of the vicious cycle of starvation and execution.
The murdered slaved or stole for crumbs or drugs to deaden constant hunger.
Explains how some resorted to crime for survival, only to meet a tragic end.
To deaden consciousness to the coldness in which they lived.
Describes using drugs as a coping mechanism to numb the harsh reality.
From filthy hands to famished mouths.
Concludes with the cycle of suffering, emphasizing the connection between poverty and hunger.
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