Rich Americans vs. Rest of the World

So recently I was thinking about the state of our earth. Pollution, overfishing, animals going extinct, the list can go on and on. But then I thought, why is the earth like this? I recently read a graph in my Geography class at school that showed that The United States of America uses 40% of the oil the world mines each year, while the rest of the world put together uses the rest. We alone, one country in a big earth, is using 40% of the oil on our earth. It's not a wonder that we are getting global warming, and the people to blame first is ourselves. As for overfishing and extiction, we as Americans are not the only cause, but we are as much to blame or more for paying large amounts of money to eat exotic fish and animals. What could be done to help this situation? Animals are going extinct because poor villagers in faraway parts of the world are hunting them to extinction. "Stop hunting those animals you greedy villagers!" We say, bundled up in warm clothes eating at a Red Lobster restaurant. What we do not realize, is that if it were us in that situation, with our own children crying with aching stomachs because they have not eaten more than one meal a day for their entire lives, them freezing to death at night because they have no blankets in winter, we too would say "hmph, I think I will eat whatever I want." I mean what do you expect those villagers to say? "Oh ok, we will stop hunting those animals for food and blankets like you rich Americans tell us to, it does not really matter if we starve to death in a month or two or freeze to death tonight, we will just think of the happy endagered turkey that is wandering free getting plump and ready for some animal to chomp on, rather than on my table with its' feathers in a down pillow and my children fed." I think we can all see the point. How about we try this, we will all trade places with the villagers from Africa and Central America. They will come live in our million dollar air conditioned homes and eat Mcdonalds Supersize burgers and watch NFL football games on big screen televisions with surround sound and send their kids to amazing universitys and take vacation cruises to the south pacific ocean. Meanwhile, we can go live in one hundred and nine degree muggy heat near the equator in a dense rainforest fighting to survive against the elements and hunger. We will live in straw shacks or three foot tall packing crates and if it rains, it pours, and that packing crate, I am afraid, does not have much sealing in the roof, and we will get wet. So I think that I have made my point which is that it is pathetic how America can live in huge amounts of wealth while many other parts of the world are living, if you can call it living, in poverty. Now, we are aware of a problem, what can be done to solve it? Well for one thing, I am sure that every person who reads this will say: "This is awful! She is right! We need to do something, the next time i'm at a press conference, I will tell president Bush that he needs to end world hunger." THAT is NOT ENOUGH. Anybody can do that, and I am 100% certain that president Bush aready knows that world hunger must end. He is only one man, even if he has lots of power, he can not provide entire countrys with food and shelter. How about we help him? What an idea! How about we go through our storage rooms and pick out a few things that we do not really need and put them in a box and ship it to a needy country? Lets do the same with blankets, good timber for houses, and medicine. If you have time and money go over there yourself! Maybe, just maybe, if we do things like this, everything that is mentioned here will not be a reality in ten or twenty years. We have some pretty cool things around us, we have the biggest houses, and the tiniest cell phones which hve every gadget you can think of rolled into one, but how about we try helping everyone else around first?