Actuly the fact of getting rid of poverty would doom us all just even faster, because the fact that the more developed countries uses more then they're share of natural resources. So if we were to get rid of poverty it would mean that most (meaning all the people in the more developed countries) people cut they're material purchases down to less then 50%, which I'm sure lots of people would find hard todo, but lets say that doesn't happen and somebody does get rid of poverty. if everybody in the world lived like somebody in Canada we would need more then 10 more earths just to support the living styles of all these people. Now think how fast it would before we use up the worlds resources and then we'd be really f**ked. Then the whole entire world would be in poverty... I know it's hard to think that peopel uot there are living in sewers, but the fact is if they wern't living in them, we all would be.
Chris
Edit: I don't mean for this to be a flame, I jsut want to point this out. so don't take this as a flame. it's just something I felt like saying and expressing.