World hunger reaches 1 billion.

Post Reply New Topic

This isn't like Nixon's silent majority right? I didn't see any studies or facts to back up what they where saying was true.

Give a hungry man a fish you have fed him for today. Let him starve to death and you can forget him forever.

ruveyn

IMHO, if there are too many hungers, they should stop making them... a billion should last quite awhile... but I remember hearing about a "hunger crisis" a while back, which suggests there is potential for shortage if we don't stockpile enough or stop producing too abruptly... the best thing would be to conserve as much hunger as we can... if we can cut usage then maybe we wouldn't need a billion hungers without risking a shortage...

The birth rates levelled off now? So the population is likely to have stabilised at 9 billion by 2050?

There's enough land around.We can agriform most of Africa, Siberia, Canada, and Greenland with Megaengineering projects. Throw in more efficient farming practices and Aquaponics, and we can feed everyone quite easily, with some left over for nature. Maybe move our housing and industry underground (I had a design idea for underground housing with a court yard).

...and while 1 billion people go hungry, we're busy growing food and then putting it in our gas tanks!

For all my life and before that we were urged to send money to "'the starving Nigerians"

The only trouble is that there are twice as many Nigerians as there were 20 years ago and they are still starving.

I read a classic quote:

"Foreign aid is taking money from poor people in rich countries and giving it to rich people in poor countries"

A couple of decades ago India was having a famine so Australia sent several shiploads of wheat.
India swapped the wheat to Russia for a few Mig fighter jets.

Look at all the pictures urging you to send money or sponsor children.

The poor 3 year girl who has to carry buckets of water miles to her home. The poor mothers trying to feed their children.

What is missing from this picture?

THEY NEVER SHOW MEN!

Why aren't the men hauling the damn water or digging in the garden?

Why aren't the men working to feed their families? Who know? They never show us.

Maybe we should send our militaries in there... to kick those dictators out. Then they can use the dictators wealth for the people there.

What couses this famine? It seems to be a natural part of where they live.

Wombat wrote:

I think the men are all off somewhere fighting against other men

Most Third World countries have cut down on their "greenhouse gas" emissions because the IMF told them to shut down their factories and production in general and just concentrate on growing bananas and pineapples and coffee and of course this saturates the market for these things... China hasn't because they're ruled by dirty Commies who don't listen to the IMF and as a result things are advancing over there.

Give a man a fish, you have fed him for today.
Let him starve and you can forget him forever.

ruveyn

Ruveyn, repeating the same thing twice doesn't make it any closer than the truth. <.<

Give a man a fish, you've fed him for a day...

Teach a man to fish, you've fed him for a lifetime...

Teach a man to fish and then impose a fishing tax and a slew of arcane regulations, and you've created a slave who feeds both you and himself.