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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
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Bellasriot
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"Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice, and ... when they fail to do this purpose they become dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress."
Tackling a problem so large that affects numerous countries will be almost impossible to fix unless two things happen. One, a well-respected central global authority decides to invest in such an issue. With this global authority sovereign states will have to participate together to solve this global problem. The other event that could happen, but not necessarily solve the problem just end it is a global war. With so much tension and corruption and with very little being done, countries may start fighting one another for resources. This war will not be a series of small wars; it will be a global one affecting every sovereign nation and every individual human being. These two possibilities are in my opinion the most probable. Fortunately with summits being held like the G8 and G20 conferences I am hopeful that these issues will be solved peacefully with the involvement of every first world country and their willingness to progress the human race.
As I read this post, I reflected on my home country of Brazil. A place where money puts an enormous gap in society. There is hardly any middle class. There is the wealthy and the "dirt poor," who know hunger very well. Corruption dominates Brazil as it does in most of the world, and I don't beleive there will ever be a solution for that. Greed is part of the human DNA and the idea that one person can make a diference seems to be a myth. We live in a world where it is perfectly normal to walk in a store and buy a diamond watch that costs thousands of dollars, all while a hungry man sits outside begging for change. What I am trying to say is that life is not fair, or equal and it will never be. Some have too much and some have nothing at all. In my opinion, a solution to slowing this great issue would be to provide information to those who were born without a chance at life. Education is the key to a better world. Simple and basic education could make all of the diference. People just don't know any better, and they have nine children without being able to feed two. They don't know what is out there and they have no way of ever finding out, because basic knowledge never reaches them. These victims of hunger in Africa and other poor parts of the world are starving, but are still making babies! They never had the opportunity to know better and prevent pregnacy, or learn to read and write so they can provide for their family. Basic education would slow the ridiculous growth in world population, and change the lifes of those who are living blindly.
While I was reading this post I could only think about my country, Honduras. A country where the supply of food has dimished in certain areas because of the severe droguhts just like in Russia, Ukraine, and Argentina. A country where there’s a lot of homeless people that are suffering from hunger. Day by day theres is thousands of people that don’t have anything to eat. Lots of kids are sufferting from malnutrition and due to the lack of vitamins and food they get really sick and end up dying, and no one does anything, the society doesn’t help at all. Unlike Honduras, the United States is a wealthy country where people that have financial problems are being helped by the community, a country where there is places where homeless people can go and have a meal. Countries Like the United States and Europe have a lot of good resources and I think they can be capable of helping other countries that really need the help and support from them. Another issue is that population is increasing and the people that are having more kids is the people that can’t support them, and this causes more problems. Kids grow with malnutrition because they never get the food, vacciness, or vitamins they need due to the situation of their parents, so I strongly believe that the situation can be better if people who are not able to support another kid would stop having them. Other than kids not having what to eat, there is lack of education in many countries because of the same reason that parents are not able to afford their kids their education, but still they keep giving birth. I think people should start reasoning more so sitations like this one stop happening.
While I was reading this post I could only think about my country, Honduras. A country where the supply of food has dimished in certain areas because of the severe droguhts just like in Russia, Ukraine, and Argentina. A country where there’s a lot of homeless people that are suffering from hunger. Day by day theres is thousands of people that don’t have anything to eat. Lots of kids are sufferting from malnutrition and due to the lack of vitamins and food they get really sick and end up dying, and no one does anything, the society doesn’t help at all. Unlike Honduras, the United States is a wealthy country where people that have financial problems are being helped by the community, a country where there is places where homeless people can go and have a meal. Countries Like the United States and Europe have a lot of good resources and I think they can be capable of helping other countries that really need the help and support from them. Another issue is that population is increasing and the people that are having more kids is the people that can’t support them, and this causes more problems. Kids grow with malnutrition because they never get the food, vacciness, or vitamins they need due to the situation of their parents, so I strongly believe that the situation can be better if people who are not able to support another kid would stop having them. Other than kids not having what to eat, there is lack of education in many countries because of the same reason that parents are not able to afford their kids their education, but still they keep giving birth. I think people should start reasoning more so sitations like this one stop happening.
Along with the global economy there needs to be global regulations on land use. Yes of coarse birth control, yes of coarse education. And yes of coarse the U.S. "helps" and supplies food to many countries. We all know the expression: better to teach a man to catch the fish then to give him the fish. The US and the able countries must learn to give aid that sustains. I believe that there should be global regulations on lands that dictate the percentages that can be used to grow grains versus lands to raise cattle. I can not tell you for sure but I believe the earth is capable of producing enough and more if resources were managed properly. Greed and lust get in the way of sustainability. We must start the positive intention individually to use what we need and share freely the things that we have. The root problem of greed in humanity starts individually. We are all connected intentionally just as the earths eco- system is connected. As for the big men in charge that we feel powerless to change, I feel a practical start is to make land usage regulations. We must stop putting so many resources into raising beef and grow more grains and potatoes. imports and exports need to slow down and we need to learn to eat what is local to our area.We also must stop letting the chemical company shower the earth with chemicals letting them become stripped of health and ability to grow any thing sustainable. Yes of coarse so many, many things need to be realized and actualized. Regulations on land usage is a small step that I believe would help our global problem of sustainability.
There are many things we can do. I have done research about this topic before, and I know from many sources the impact this population problem has on many other issues. First, the problem must be divided and engaged in from two different faces, the third world countries and the wealthy ones. Most People in third world countries do not have a choice when we talk about nutrition, education, and even reproduction. Some families earn enough money to survive, can’t pay for schools, and need to have kids to ensure the income after their retirement. So, what can they do? They need to be helped by the wealthy, first world, countries, like the United States. But, even wealthy countries have their own problems. Most people in wealthy countries consume more than what they need. They are used to luxury of any type. From my point of view, the problem begins with the media. The media suggest what is “good” and “necessary” for people, not letting them to make their own choice. Second, the problem of the media is the beginning, but there is also an ideological problem. We are so saturated with the idea of pollutants, and scarcity of resources that we do not really analyze some aspects we think are perfectly balanced. My main focus is the diet most developed countries have. People are so used to eat meat, that they don’t even think this could be an issue. Is it? Because of the extremely fast growth of the population, it is. Nowadays, the dairy and meat industries pollutes more than the transportation sector (which includes every fuelled vehicle from cars to airplanes altogether). The problem was mentioned on an official report by the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) for the first time in 2006. We are forcing animals to reproduce as such a speed they are one of the main pollutants. Even more important, they suffer for our “welfare.” We don’t even need to eat meat. Our body is more prepared to consume veggies than meat. It takes about 7 Kg of grain, corn and soy to produce 1 Kg of meat, and I am not even mentioning the amount of water used to produce that meat. We are wasting resources to get our food, and that is the principle of luxury. We are blinded by the media and walking the way our ancestors told us to continue. We need to start wondering about what would happen if we just stop walking forward the edge, of course, after we take out the blinders out.
Food is necessary for people to live. If so, why do we extremely abuse this necessity? There are many reasons why this period of human's time line of being on this planet has shown the great increase of numbers our species put on Earth. We are slowly killing this planet and unfortunately our race will be decreased or if not extinguished. For example, third world countries are suffering because of lack of income, resources or even natural disasters. Different parts of the world are becoming over populated and consuming more than needs to be distributed. From deforestation to the pollution that is being done is causing this world to end. Insufficient resources will be a crater in every part of the world's economy. People are going to double and triple and so enough we are going run out of resources. The only thing we could do is use less of what we already consume. Basically the world will be in total chaos if we do not d o anything to prevent our world to go into the shiter. Every one would be driven to survive under heavy circumstances and unable to sustain themselves will end up in a revolt or anarchy.
The main problem with shortage of food and the lack there of in other countries is simply greed. The greed comes from the ones in charge of the governments. These organizations have the power to change situations but they dont. We live in a world where it all about me and nobodyelse. Its not just in the other countries its all over the world. Regardless of what people say this world will not get any better until Jesus Christ returns. This world has no regard for the Lord. Although alot of people may, or may not agree with my comment I fell strong about my comment.
This one like every topic you bring up is complicated but, important. There are many factors as you mentioned in the article taking place when distribution of food and population topics come to discussion. After reading and debating with some of my closest friends about this topic we all got to the same agreement and conclusion: yes, there are environmental problems, disparities, lack of education, no health public system, hunger, etc that are facts, but at the bottom of all this we find politicians that are not welling to do anything for their people. Politicians and presidents from third world countries have no real political will to make changes. They have the tools and power to change education and health systems but they are doing nothing. The level of corruption is proportional to the level of disparities and hunger. There are examples in Latin America of politics making changes and bringing progress for their countries. Why not to think that this is possible in other parts of the world? For me It is only a matter of political will. Good politics equal to better education system, better education system equal to educated people, educated people equal to people that cares about environment, good environment equal to more resources, food and less hunger. What can we do? I will keep driving my very small car, using my fabric bag to do groceries and taking showers of 6 minutes instead of 12. My personal philosophy is that "Tiny drops makes the waves and the waves forms a sea"
I have to agree with many who have written before me that this a very deep long winded conversation with many levels. What I would like to add is the part where we should be tackling a much more sustainable approach to the way we live. I spent some time in Costa Rica where a friend owns a large property and it is 100% self sufficient. www.puntamona.org After seeing what he was able to create and the way the community lives I’m a believer that this is the way we should all be leaving. Depending on where you live and what the climate is there are many way to farm and live off the land. Again, this topic is super complicated but at the end if we can stop killing animals, not use as much oil and electricity, recycle more it all helps in the end. I’ve seen what one man can do on one community, why can’t thousands do this in many communities?
Much too often the problem of Global Hunger (and related to it, the Increase of Food Prices) is blamed on the “wealthy High Classes ” or the “capitalistic First World Countries” who eat too much and help too little. And that seems logic and true, right? However, there is a Case Study of a country where the guilt of famine doesn’t fall on Capitalism but on the contrary: an Excessively Regulative Government, a government that is “too helpful”. This country is my homeland Venezuela. Venezuela’s Statist Economic Program destroys all incentives for food production, because it’s the government who decides who and how much will be produced. With an unfavorable food production and strict conditions for Food Import, food prices raise sky high. The supposed “solution” that the Government applies then, is even more control: a price cap on all basic food products so the poor can access them. These fixed prices are ridiculously low, which forces the producers to halt manufacture completely because they can’t sell based on constant loss. And thus food products such as milk, meat, oil, sugar and flour will disappear from the markets for months and Venezuelans will go hungry under a paternalist state that was meant to feed them. The point of Venezuela as a Case Study is the following: much too easily we assume the people hunger because someone else is eating too much, and we bring up Global Regulation and Equal Food Distribution as a magic solution. However, Food Production is a Market and like any market freedom impulses it and regulation doesn’t. Even if the regulation is imposed in the name of Equality.
This topic is way too complex and in it we are not only discussing the scarcity of aliments but the nature of the human being, which for me is the most complex topic we can ever discuss about. Many factors contribute to the fact that some countries have a lot and others have too little, focusing on the problem of agriculture I think that besides the reasons mentioned on the article like no education, no control over reproduction and corruption, there is one that is the seed to all of them and is the insatiable greed of the human being. Some countries could set limits to the revenue a company can make but they don’t, because the people who think there is never enough revenue have the power to do whatever they want either is legal or illegal. As a result we see big countries signing Free Trade Agreements that makes for a peasant in countries like Nicaragua cheaper to buy food than to produce it, then when a disaster hits the country holding all the production the poor countries are the ones that pay the highest price. Could they do something about it? Is there a solution? Of course there is, companies and countries could think about the consequences in the long term and mainly in the consequences for the small poor countries, they should think twice before moving all factories to another country with cheaper hand of labor destroying at the same time entire communities in the name of money, they could think that human rights are being violated in most countries with the cheapest hand of labor but they don’t care. The truth is most rich people will always choose to stay rich before thinking about what others may need help and rich countries will always focus on their interests before caring about people dying or suffering in other countries.
What would I do if I had the power to do a big change in the way the world works? Well, we have hundreds of countries, each one with their own culture and beliefs, each one focused on the problems they face and little about the rest, the few that have the privilege of being part of the world elite are more worried about keeping themselves in that positions than in helping other countries, however, in 1948 in the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, there we can read that every human being has the right between many others to life and freedom... but those are only pretty words that no one respects, and United Nation is useless to do something when it has to, if United Nations really worked as UNITED NATIONS they would take into account every human being and share the resources of the world between all the people who live in it. We have one world and we are one mankind, why do we discriminate of give more importance to some? Why don’t we care about the others? I know is impossible in today’s society to suddenly give up all power to a “world government” but I think that the only way human kind would get serious about all the problems we are facing. Since I’m not in a position to change the way things work in the world I just live my life respecting everyone and expecting them to respect me, using empathy to treat others like I would like to be treated, I think if we all followed that path we would start really caring about those who need to be cared about and helping those in need of help.
There has always been a problem with population growth and sufficient amounts of food in undeveloped and underdeveloped countries. This problem is mainly rooted in greed- those with the technology and resources to help do not do so since there is no profit in it for them. As far as land use, countries and societies with the means to do so go above and beyond what their needs are to a level of luxury which takes a major toll on the rest of the world. Everybody heard their mother tell them at least once to clean their plate at dinner time and to not be wasteful because across the globe people don’t have anything to eat at all, but that’s what the United States and societies like it do- waste food and other resources just because we can afford it. There needs to be a global authority that puts reasonable limits on countries with means on how many extra resources they are allowed to use so that those in need have an opportunity to fulfill it.
The world hunger epidemic has been an on-going issue since we can all remember. The magnitude of a crisis has so many variables that is quiet difficult to find a working solution for millions of impacted lives. Nonetheless, there are ways to approach this problem from many perspectives. Let’s begin with an example of unity, such as the one done for the tsunami in India and the earthquake in Haiti. Actions like this demonstrate that unity amongst nations in a time of crisis is possible, so why is it that there is over 800 million people overseas days in and days out with no assistance? I somewhat agree to Fafner/ Kevin Cano when he argued that countries like the United States and Europe can demonstrate the importance of what’s necessary as oppose to what’s a luxury as an educational purpose to begin schooling the younger generation of the importance of unity and aiding others in need. The 21st generation is filled with self-center people who lack to process the importance of the impact that the world has on us. We have the tools to respond to this humanitarian call. For example, as a united foundation of the world we could begin with providing food, water, and food vouchers. Also, there needs to be a form of reducing over grown families in these third world countries, perhaps sexual education, condoms, and/or birth control, like China’s control population approach. Another form of approach to control population could be education for boys and girls, which will give them something to provide focus too, encouraging girls to stay in schools later and having smaller families. It is understandable that many countries have suffered from many natural disasters; however, for those countries that they do have proper crop seasons such as the Americas, need to be taken advantage and link up with their local schools and provide food to children. This is a method currently being used by Brazil. In fact, Brazil’s people also get cash transfers and health clinics depending on their children’s school grades and this is only costing them less than 1 percent of their GDP. Also, focusing on feeding on woman can really assist this matter. Think about it, woman are the basic foundation of life…therefore, by empowering women you feed children at an early age, assisting a better health condition for the child which will later reflect in the future. This is a matter than needs to approach by a local perspective to begin with and then globally. World hunger will not resolved overnight or anytime soon, but over time crop improvements such as the one done in Timbuktu provide food with time. Approaching locally as oppose to globally will eliminated travelling cost of food, pollution & other expenses that could be avoided.
Hopefully in 2012 the aliens will come down from space and teach how to make clean power and how to evolve past greed and selfish desires... till then think globally act locally:)
One of the most substantial factors of mass hunger is the lack of education. Many of the people facing this issue are poorly informed on how to sustain their own crops and localize their own food sources. Possibly, a global effort to send volunteers to train and help the societies to become more agriculturally aware might solve a small tier of the issue. In American culture, for the most part, overindulgence is ignorantly taught to us by our easy accessibility to food by fast-food restaurants and advertising. Perhaps by using advertising as more of a way to spread awareness of people in need, our culture might learn to be a little more frugal as opposed to ignorantly unaware. Population explosion and the rising price of food are going to continue to expand until the government steps in to regulate and provide the resources the community needs to be sustainable. The best we can offer the civilization is birth control and education. It’s what the civilization and government do with what we are able to provide them with that will make a difference.
Like all great empires in human history that had once risen above all others and seem indestructive collapsed, so shall ours at some point if we do not manage and control our resources in time. Not long ago I watched a documentary that reflects on the way humans in the world have lived for centuries and how because of greed and lack of knowledge we have led the world to great loses. They looked at it from a future perspective which shows the world of today as remains, such at the ruins of Rome. They talked a lot about what could've caused such decline and one that truly impacted me was the one of how we are killing our natural resources and draining our planet of probitions just for our own desire. We humans directly affect our ecosystem and through hormonal growth of animals and plants are affecting even our own health. There is a balance that has to be maintained and rich countries acquire more food than is needed, food that if managed correctly could feed the over 6 billions of humans in this planet and more. Every area of this planet has been provisioned enough to feed those living in it, without abusing it. People should go back to old ways and try to bring the world to a balance by living off of its own area resources as much as possible. We should balance the exporting/importing of foods to what is mostly essential and not just desired, and as mentioned by one of my classmates above educate the world on how to survive and decrease the rapidly increasing human population. There will come a point if not stopped since now where governments will start imposing rules of selective and limited reproduction. We should all think about these issues and look at ourselves and make others look at themselves and avoid overusing our resources and find out how to improve our way of living by cutting back and saving just a little. One person can make a difference big enough that others will notice and will follow. Many will suffer if measures are not implemented right away, and may not be our future generations, it may be our own generation and our kid's generation the ones that do. We are all humans if we do not help ourselves, who will?
In order to achieve population control, many elements of society must be involved. Education of the populace should help curb birth rates. Monetary incentive to limit number of pregnancy is a good way to coerce the community against reproduction. Availability of different types of birth control methods and health care will help decrease the amount of unwanted pregnancies. The combination of these types of services will limit population growth. There is a finite amount of resources in the world for food production. Uncontrolled disasters such as floods, drought, fire, hurricanes, and cyclones cause detrimental impact on crops. To help increase the chance that crops survive harsh weather, genetic modified crops is a viable versus susceptible indigenous crops. Many would argue this is not the healthier way to a solution, but what healthier do you need that those that are already dying of hunger.
The current world population is growing at an alarming rate, about ninety million additional births per year. These numbers would mean nothing except that every one of them requires resources for their wellbeing. Food shortages usually occur in areas where there is overwhelming population growth such as Asia and the Pacific. Statistic show that people who are more educated usually delay having children. In a world where capitalism is the norm, the educated few live comfortably while the backward many starve. We can help through volunteerism by educating families and giving them the tools to make informed choices.
THE GOVERNMENT is the only thing that can stop this. Government in the U.S as well as other countries are the only ones who have the finances and ability to implement and enforce new laws and regulations.. Not to mention the greed factor in all of this. The united states won't get involved unless there's oil. They won't just go in to Somalia and provide food and education and other resources that those people need. The u.s will only do it if they get something of value in return. Oil, diamonds, cheap labor, and so on and so on. It's an ugly way to put it? It's the truth.. Sorry to all of those who are poor, and have 15 kids.. But this is something that won't change.I have a feeling that what will eventually happen is if the governments get together and start secretly killing people by large masses. Cause it's " easier" or " cheaper" .. You know.. The American way.
I am American. I also know that I am very lucky to have food without having the worries of where my next meal will come from. Americans and European trend to consume more than we actually intend to. We don’t really notice at times that there are people out there who don’t have the benefits like us in the US or Europe, that at times we even waste food by throwing away left overs. Maybe the reason for food prices have gone up is to try to make us consume and buy less food. That way maybe some of the food can be sent to place that is really needed for people who prove for their families. Another reason why prices may have gone up is because the weather has really taken a turn for the worse and may have made the land unable to grow anything. One thing is for sure, population has grown in the last couple years and feeding the world population is going to prove difficult.
The food demand has been rising due to the high pace development in other countries. With the addition of high oil prices, transportation and manufacturing prices increases as well. These factors are in correlation with supply and demand. In these countries many of these occurrences are happening because of the fluctuations in currencies, natural disasters and the use of other energy sources. Unlike these other countries, the United States is more driven by catching consumers attention rather than factors such as energy efficiency. Packaging is what sells food; it is the colors, design, typeface, and the marketing skill. The shopper is not aware that when purchasing the product it is mainly these factors that are entailed. Unlike other countries who solely pay for the food itself. The ingredients/food the US pays for has had a reasonable price been due from long term contracts and trades, However, because of bad weather, oil prices, and protests, will soon affect US food prices in the following months. Luciana Manrique
As I read the post and the those of my class mates i realize how ignorant i have been in regards to such topic. I know, by default, that there is a major lack of resource in Africa but by no means was I so aware to what extent is it world wide, including near by countries. 40% percent of the world is taken up by humans, the other sixty is everything ells, including open terrain, animals, etc. There is no way that we can control the population, nor how much a person can procreate. But i do think that the only thing that can be controlled is how much a person gives. Not only to others financially, but also make us, the humans, grow our own crops, there is plenty of open land that is sitting there looking pretty rather than doing what it should, growing crops. If the problem is lack of food, then lets all get together as ONE nation and make some changes. At the end, for example, what negative happens in Africa, may impact us in America. With that being said, their "lack of", may one day be our "lack of" so lets work together now.
I wish I had a proposed solution to this problem that sounded somewhat reasonable. What I see in the future, as some have already mentioned, is war over resources. We have already seen plenty of that will oil. How long until fertile farmland becomes as valuable a resource as oil? How long until less developed countries with good land for agricultural use get taken over by more powerful corrupt countries, who want to take advantage of the high demand worldwide for certain food supplies? Corrupt countries who may not even need the food themselves, would certainly want to get involved in trade of valuable food supplies, and fix prices high, according to demand from countries suffering. A possible solution would be for many powerful, developed countries across the world to form an alliance, and designate a certain portion of their fertile farmland for growing food supplies, to be used as needed worldwide. These farms would be regulated by the governments, and distribution of goods would depend on countries in the most need, however ideally distrubution would be equal across the places in need.
I had asked myself many times questions like this one: “How do you fix it?”; it’s not an easy to come up with a solution to the many problems we face. In this case I will say to fix the problem we will have to change peoples’ mind. And that alone is already another problem: “how do we change peoples’ mind? And why?”. What I would say next is not going to be nice, but I can sit here and say “well, if there is a lack of food and it’s growing pretty fast it might mean that we could be next on the list. If so, I (as a selfish creature) should be concern on my own good” but I’m that selfish creature. The UN and UNICEF have donated water and food, but for how long can they keep up with this? It’s obvious that it doesn’t solve the problem rather than help the problem. If we do change peoples’ mind; what do we change it into? Perhaps, let’s stop leaving in this market world, let’s stop the unstoppable hunger for money and do some good faith. Why not lower the prices of everything, why not stop depraved such as tobacco, alcohol, drugs, etc. and converted into crop fields for food supplies. Today the problem is out there but tomorrow it can be here. Do we wait until tomorrow to do something about it?
It makes me sick to think of all the people that live on this planet and their is not enough food to go around to feed everyone. We have so many resources that we can work with, there's no reason why ANYONE should be hungry. It's sad to think that the world is so corrupt, so greedy, that we fail to see what is really in front of us. There needs to be some sort of structure. Not just for each country and its governments, but for the planet as a whole. I feel that when it comes to food, and being able to survive, one country shouldn't be allowed more than another. Everything in this world is based on money. All anyone is ever concerned about it how much profit their going to make. I believe there should be a system in which countries trade food with eachother to go around for everyone. We live on a planet thats bigger than we realize, we need to consider all of it and not just what is close to us.
This is a matter that has been happening forever. What causes this? To be honest, I do believe is a combination of government, education, and to some extent, culture. Countries like Darfur, and The Democratic Republic of Kongo, whose territories have been ravaged by civil war, and corrupted leaders; food scarce has become a common occurring. To me the only way to somehow solve this problem would be if the country has a powerful leader, who is willing to care about the welfare of his or her society. Somebody who educates people, and show them that the struggles that they are going through are not normal, and should not be tolerated. However, as humans we tend to be selfish. For most of us, if it does not bother us, it does not concern us. Do not get me wrong, I have no problems with being comfortable, but I do have problems with indifference, and ignorance.
These problems of global starvation, economic depression, and unresolved natural disasters will continue to happen. Only united countries in a global prospective will fix these problems. When Russia and Argentina experience droughts, you can’t expect it won’t affect the countries on the other side of the world. For every dollar someone thrives on, the other suffers. Humans have made ourselves believe that land has boundaries when in fact we live on the same planet. All nations need to unite and set standards on population growth, capacity, and housing. For example, if the Indian government can’t feed their people, all countries need to help and supply. This global pact needs to be more like the communist idea, where everyone needs to be equally aided. But realistically this won’t happen at all or for centuries when some disaster happens that forces everyone to unite. Same could be said with natural disasters, if America gets hit by hurricanes and Europe does not help. Then when Europe gets hit be something, America won’t want or be able to help Europe. Do as you would like to be to you yourself. -Lisandra Sanchez
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"Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice, and ... when they fail to do this purpose they become dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress."
Tackling a problem so large that affects numerous countries will be almost impossible to fix unless two things happen. One, a well-respected central global authority decides to invest in such an issue. With this global authority sovereign states will have to participate together to solve this global problem. The other event that could happen, but not necessarily solve the problem just end it is a global war. With so much tension and corruption and with very little being done, countries may start fighting one another for resources. This war will not be a series of small wars; it will be a global one affecting every sovereign nation and every individual human being. These two possibilities are in my opinion the most probable. Fortunately with summits being held like the G8 and G20 conferences I am hopeful that these issues will be solved peacefully with the involvement of every first world country and their willingness to progress the human race.
This video is a great example of how a problem like this can be solved.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/josette_sheeran_ending_hunger_now.html
As I read this post, I reflected on my home country of Brazil. A place where money puts an enormous gap in society. There is hardly any middle class. There is the wealthy and the "dirt poor," who know hunger very well. Corruption dominates Brazil as it does in most of the world, and I don't beleive there will ever be a solution for that. Greed is part of the human DNA and the idea that one person can make a diference seems to be a myth. We live in a world where it is perfectly normal to walk in a store and buy a diamond watch that costs thousands of dollars, all while a hungry man sits outside begging for change.
What I am trying to say is that life is not fair, or equal and it will never be. Some have too much and some have nothing at all. In my opinion, a solution to slowing this great issue would be to provide information to those who were born without a chance at life.
Education is the key to a better world. Simple and basic education could make all of the diference. People just don't know any better, and they have nine children without being able to feed two. They don't know what is out there and they have no way of ever finding out, because basic knowledge never reaches them. These victims of hunger in Africa and other poor parts of the world are starving, but are still making babies! They never had the opportunity to know better and prevent pregnacy, or learn to read and write so they can provide for their family. Basic education would slow the ridiculous growth in world population, and change the lifes of those who are living blindly.
While I was reading this post I could only think about my country, Honduras. A country where the supply of food has dimished in certain areas because of the severe droguhts just like in Russia, Ukraine, and Argentina. A country where there’s a lot of homeless people that are suffering from hunger. Day by day theres is thousands of people that don’t have anything to eat. Lots of kids are sufferting from malnutrition and due to the lack of vitamins and food they get really sick and end up dying, and no one does anything, the society doesn’t help at all. Unlike Honduras, the United States is a wealthy country where people that have financial problems are being helped by the community, a country where there is places where homeless people can go and have a meal. Countries Like the United States and Europe have a lot of good resources and I think they can be capable of helping other countries that really need the help and support from them. Another issue is that population is increasing and the people that are having more kids is the people that can’t support them, and this causes more problems. Kids grow with malnutrition because they never get the food, vacciness, or vitamins they need due to the situation of their parents, so I strongly believe that the situation can be better if people who are not able to support another kid would stop having them. Other than kids not having what to eat, there is lack of education in many countries because of the same reason that parents are not able to afford their kids their education, but still they keep giving birth. I think people should start reasoning more so sitations like this one stop happening.
While I was reading this post I could only think about my country, Honduras. A country where the supply of food has dimished in certain areas because of the severe droguhts just like in Russia, Ukraine, and Argentina. A country where there’s a lot of homeless people that are suffering from hunger. Day by day theres is thousands of people that don’t have anything to eat. Lots of kids are sufferting from malnutrition and due to the lack of vitamins and food they get really sick and end up dying, and no one does anything, the society doesn’t help at all. Unlike Honduras, the United States is a wealthy country where people that have financial problems are being helped by the community, a country where there is places where homeless people can go and have a meal. Countries Like the United States and Europe have a lot of good resources and I think they can be capable of helping other countries that really need the help and support from them. Another issue is that population is increasing and the people that are having more kids is the people that can’t support them, and this causes more problems. Kids grow with malnutrition because they never get the food, vacciness, or vitamins they need due to the situation of their parents, so I strongly believe that the situation can be better if people who are not able to support another kid would stop having them. Other than kids not having what to eat, there is lack of education in many countries because of the same reason that parents are not able to afford their kids their education, but still they keep giving birth. I think people should start reasoning more so sitations like this one stop happening.
Along with the global economy there needs to be global regulations on land use. Yes of coarse birth control, yes of coarse education. And yes of coarse the U.S. "helps" and supplies food to many countries. We all know the expression: better to teach a man to catch the fish then to give him the fish. The US and the able countries must learn to give aid that sustains. I believe that there should be global regulations on lands that dictate the percentages that can be used to grow grains versus lands to raise cattle. I can not tell you for sure but I believe the earth is capable of producing enough and more if resources were managed properly. Greed and lust get in the way of sustainability. We must start the positive intention individually to use what we need and share freely the things that we have. The root problem of greed in humanity starts individually. We are all connected intentionally just as the earths eco- system is connected. As for the big men in charge that we feel powerless to change, I feel a practical start is to make land usage regulations. We must stop putting so many resources into raising beef and grow more grains and potatoes. imports and exports need to slow down and we need to learn to eat what is local to our area.We also must stop letting the chemical company shower the earth with chemicals letting them become stripped of health and ability to grow any thing sustainable. Yes of coarse so many, many things need to be realized and actualized. Regulations on land usage is a small step that I believe would help our global problem of sustainability.
There are many things we can do. I have done research about this topic before, and I know from many sources the impact this population problem has on many other issues. First, the problem must be divided and engaged in from two different faces, the third world countries and the wealthy ones. Most People in third world countries do not have a choice when we talk about nutrition, education, and even reproduction. Some families earn enough money to survive, can’t pay for schools, and need to have kids to ensure the income after their retirement. So, what can they do? They need to be helped by the wealthy, first world, countries, like the United States. But, even wealthy countries have their own problems. Most people in wealthy countries consume more than what they need. They are used to luxury of any type. From my point of view, the problem begins with the media. The media suggest what is “good” and “necessary” for people, not letting them to make their own choice. Second, the problem of the media is the beginning, but there is also an ideological problem. We are so saturated with the idea of pollutants, and scarcity of resources that we do not really analyze some aspects we think are perfectly balanced. My main focus is the diet most developed countries have. People are so used to eat meat, that they don’t even think this could be an issue. Is it? Because of the extremely fast growth of the population, it is. Nowadays, the dairy and meat industries pollutes more than the transportation sector (which includes every fuelled vehicle from cars to airplanes altogether). The problem was mentioned on an official report by the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) for the first time in 2006. We are forcing animals to reproduce as such a speed they are one of the main pollutants. Even more important, they suffer for our “welfare.” We don’t even need to eat meat. Our body is more prepared to consume veggies than meat. It takes about 7 Kg of grain, corn and soy to produce 1 Kg of meat, and I am not even mentioning the amount of water used to produce that meat. We are wasting resources to get our food, and that is the principle of luxury. We are blinded by the media and walking the way our ancestors told us to continue. We need to start wondering about what would happen if we just stop walking forward the edge, of course, after we take out the blinders out.
Kevin Caro
Food is necessary for people to live. If so, why do we extremely abuse this necessity?
There are many reasons why this period of human's time line of being on this planet has shown the great increase of numbers our species put on Earth. We are slowly killing this planet and unfortunately our race will be decreased or if not extinguished. For example, third world countries are suffering because of lack of income, resources or even natural disasters. Different parts of the world are becoming over populated and consuming more than needs to be distributed. From deforestation to the pollution that is being done is causing this world to end. Insufficient resources will be a crater in every part of the world's economy. People are going to double and triple and so enough we are going run out of resources. The only thing we could do is use less of what we already consume. Basically the world will be in total chaos if we do not d o anything to prevent our world to go into the shiter. Every one would be driven to survive under heavy circumstances and unable to sustain themselves will end up in a revolt or anarchy.
The main problem with shortage of food and the lack there of in other countries is simply greed. The greed comes from the ones in charge of the governments. These organizations have the power to change situations but they dont. We live in a world where it all about me and nobodyelse. Its not just in the other countries its all over the world. Regardless of what people say this world will not get any better until Jesus Christ returns. This world has no regard for the Lord. Although alot of people may, or may not agree with my comment I fell strong about my comment.
This one like every topic you bring up is complicated but, important. There are many factors as you mentioned in the article taking place when distribution of food and population topics come to discussion. After reading and debating with some of my closest friends about this topic we all got to the same agreement and conclusion: yes, there are environmental problems, disparities, lack of education, no health public system, hunger, etc that are facts, but at the bottom of all this we find politicians that are not welling to do anything for their people. Politicians and presidents from third world countries have no real political will to make changes. They have the tools and power to change education and health systems but they are doing nothing. The level of corruption is proportional to the level of disparities and hunger. There are examples in Latin America of politics making changes and bringing progress for their countries. Why not to think that this is possible in other parts of the world? For me It is only a matter of political will. Good politics equal to better education system, better education system equal to educated people, educated people equal to people that cares about environment, good environment equal to more resources, food and less hunger.
What can we do? I will keep driving my very small car, using my fabric bag to do groceries and taking showers of 6 minutes instead of 12. My personal philosophy is that "Tiny drops makes the waves and the waves forms a sea"
I have to agree with many who have written before me that this a very deep long winded conversation with many levels. What I would like to add is the part where we should be tackling a much more sustainable approach to the way we live. I spent some time in Costa Rica where a friend owns a large property and it is 100% self sufficient. www.puntamona.org After seeing what he was able to create and the way the community lives I’m a believer that this is the way we should all be leaving. Depending on where you live and what the climate is there are many way to farm and live off the land. Again, this topic is super complicated but at the end if we can stop killing animals, not use as much oil and electricity, recycle more it all helps in the end. I’ve seen what one man can do on one community, why can’t thousands do this in many communities?
Much too often the problem of Global Hunger (and related to it, the Increase of Food Prices) is blamed on the “wealthy High Classes ” or the “capitalistic First World Countries” who eat too much and help too little. And that seems logic and true, right? However, there is a Case Study of a country where the guilt of famine doesn’t fall on Capitalism but on the contrary: an Excessively Regulative Government, a government that is “too helpful”. This country is my homeland Venezuela. Venezuela’s Statist Economic Program destroys all incentives for food production, because it’s the government who decides who and how much will be produced. With an unfavorable food production and strict conditions for Food Import, food prices raise sky high. The supposed “solution” that the Government applies then, is even more control: a price cap on all basic food products so the poor can access them. These fixed prices are ridiculously low, which forces the producers to halt manufacture completely because they can’t sell based on constant loss. And thus food products such as milk, meat, oil, sugar and flour will disappear from the markets for months and Venezuelans will go hungry under a paternalist state that was meant to feed them. The point of Venezuela as a Case Study is the following: much too easily we assume the people hunger because someone else is eating too much, and we bring up Global Regulation and Equal Food Distribution as a magic solution. However, Food Production is a Market and like any market freedom impulses it and regulation doesn’t. Even if the regulation is imposed in the name of Equality.
This topic is way too complex and in it we are not only discussing the scarcity of aliments but the nature of the human being, which for me is the most complex topic we can ever discuss about. Many factors contribute to the fact that some countries have a lot and others have too little, focusing on the problem of agriculture I think that besides the reasons mentioned on the article like no education, no control over reproduction and corruption, there is one that is the seed to all of them and is the insatiable greed of the human being. Some countries could set limits to the revenue a company can make but they don’t, because the people who think there is never enough revenue have the power to do whatever they want either is legal or illegal. As a result we see big countries signing Free Trade Agreements that makes for a peasant in countries like Nicaragua cheaper to buy food than to produce it, then when a disaster hits the country holding all the production the poor countries are the ones that pay the highest price. Could they do something about it? Is there a solution? Of course there is, companies and countries could think about the consequences in the long term and mainly in the consequences for the small poor countries, they should think twice before moving all factories to another country with cheaper hand of labor destroying at the same time entire communities in the name of money, they could think that human rights are being violated in most countries with the cheapest hand of labor but they don’t care. The truth is most rich people will always choose to stay rich before thinking about what others may need help and rich countries will always focus on their interests before caring about people dying or suffering in other countries.
What would I do if I had the power to do a big change in the way the world works? Well, we have hundreds of countries, each one with their own culture and beliefs, each one focused on the problems they face and little about the rest, the few that have the privilege of being part of the world elite are more worried about keeping themselves in that positions than in helping other countries, however, in 1948 in the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, there we can read that every human being has the right between many others to life and freedom... but those are only pretty words that no one respects, and United Nation is useless to do something when it has to, if United Nations really worked as UNITED NATIONS they would take into account every human being and share the resources of the world between all the people who live in it. We have one world and we are one mankind, why do we discriminate of give more importance to some? Why don’t we care about the others? I know is impossible in today’s society to suddenly give up all power to a “world government” but I think that the only way human kind would get serious about all the problems we are facing.
Since I’m not in a position to change the way things work in the world I just live my life respecting everyone and expecting them to respect me, using empathy to treat others like I would like to be treated, I think if we all followed that path we would start really caring about those who need to be cared about and helping those in need of help.
There has always been a problem with population growth and sufficient amounts of food in undeveloped and underdeveloped countries. This problem is mainly rooted in greed- those with the technology and resources to help do not do so since there is no profit in it for them. As far as land use, countries and societies with the means to do so go above and beyond what their needs are to a level of luxury which takes a major toll on the rest of the world. Everybody heard their mother tell them at least once to clean their plate at dinner time and to not be wasteful because across the globe people don’t have anything to eat at all, but that’s what the United States and societies like it do- waste food and other resources just because we can afford it. There needs to be a global authority that puts reasonable limits on countries with means on how many extra resources they are allowed to use so that those in need have an opportunity to fulfill it.
The world hunger epidemic has been an on-going issue since we can all remember. The magnitude of a crisis has so many variables that is quiet difficult to find a working solution for millions of impacted lives. Nonetheless, there are ways to approach this problem from many perspectives. Let’s begin with an example of unity, such as the one done for the tsunami in India and the earthquake in Haiti. Actions like this demonstrate that unity amongst nations in a time of crisis is possible, so why is it that there is over 800 million people overseas days in and days out with no assistance? I somewhat agree to Fafner/ Kevin Cano when he argued that countries like the United States and Europe can demonstrate the importance of what’s necessary as oppose to what’s a luxury as an educational purpose to begin schooling the younger generation of the importance of unity and aiding others in need. The 21st generation is filled with self-center people who lack to process the importance of the impact that the world has on us. We have the tools to respond to this humanitarian call. For example, as a united foundation of the world we could begin with providing food, water, and food vouchers. Also, there needs to be a form of reducing over grown families in these third world countries, perhaps sexual education, condoms, and/or birth control, like China’s control population approach. Another form of approach to control population could be education for boys and girls, which will give them something to provide focus too, encouraging girls to stay in schools later and having smaller families. It is understandable that many countries have suffered from many natural disasters; however, for those countries that they do have proper crop seasons such as the Americas, need to be taken advantage and link up with their local schools and provide food to children. This is a method currently being used by Brazil. In fact, Brazil’s people also get cash transfers and health clinics depending on their children’s school grades and this is only costing them less than 1 percent of their GDP. Also, focusing on feeding on woman can really assist this matter. Think about it, woman are the basic foundation of life…therefore, by empowering women you feed children at an early age, assisting a better health condition for the child which will later reflect in the future. This is a matter than needs to approach by a local perspective to begin with and then globally. World hunger will not resolved overnight or anytime soon, but over time crop improvements such as the one done in Timbuktu provide food with time. Approaching locally as oppose to globally will eliminated travelling cost of food, pollution & other expenses that could be avoided.
Hopefully in 2012 the aliens will come down from space and teach how to make clean power and how to evolve past greed and selfish desires... till then think globally act locally:)
One of the most substantial factors of mass hunger is the lack of education. Many of the people facing this issue are poorly informed on how to sustain their own crops and localize their own food sources. Possibly, a global effort to send volunteers to train and help the societies to become more agriculturally aware might solve a small tier of the issue. In American culture, for the most part, overindulgence is ignorantly taught to us by our easy accessibility to food by fast-food restaurants and advertising. Perhaps by using advertising as more of a way to spread awareness of people in need, our culture might learn to be a little more frugal as opposed to ignorantly unaware. Population explosion and the rising price of food are going to continue to expand until the government steps in to regulate and provide the resources the community needs to be sustainable. The best we can offer the civilization is birth control and education. It’s what the civilization and government do with what we are able to provide them with that will make a difference.
Yasmani Leyva,
Like all great empires in human history that had once risen above all others and seem indestructive collapsed, so shall ours at some point if we do not manage and control our resources in time. Not long ago I watched a documentary that reflects on the way humans in the world have lived for centuries and how because of greed and lack of knowledge we have led the world to great loses. They looked at it from a future perspective which shows the world of today as remains, such at the ruins of Rome. They talked a lot about what could've caused such decline and one that truly impacted me was the one of how we are killing our natural resources and draining our planet of probitions just for our own desire. We humans directly affect our ecosystem and through hormonal growth of animals and plants are affecting even our own health. There is a balance that has to be maintained and rich countries acquire more food than is needed, food that if managed correctly could feed the over 6 billions of humans in this planet and more. Every area of this planet has been provisioned enough to feed those living in it, without abusing it. People should go back to old ways and try to bring the world to a balance by living off of its own area resources as much as possible. We should balance the exporting/importing of foods to what is mostly essential and not just desired, and as mentioned by one of my classmates above educate the world on how to survive and decrease the rapidly increasing human population. There will come a point if not stopped since now where governments will start imposing rules of selective and limited reproduction. We should all think about these issues and look at ourselves and make others look at themselves and avoid overusing our resources and find out how to improve our way of living by cutting back and saving just a little. One person can make a difference big enough that others will notice and will follow. Many will suffer if measures are not implemented right away, and may not be our future generations, it may be our own generation and our kid's generation the ones that do. We are all humans if we do not help ourselves, who will?
In order to achieve population control, many elements of society must be involved. Education of the populace should help curb birth rates. Monetary incentive to limit number of pregnancy is a good way to coerce the community against reproduction. Availability of different types of birth control methods and health care will help decrease the amount of unwanted pregnancies. The combination of these types of services will limit population growth.
There is a finite amount of resources in the world for food production. Uncontrolled disasters such as floods, drought, fire, hurricanes, and cyclones cause detrimental impact on crops. To help increase the chance that crops survive harsh weather, genetic modified crops is a viable versus susceptible indigenous crops. Many would argue this is not the healthier way to a solution, but what healthier do you need that those that are already dying of hunger.
The current world population is growing at an alarming rate, about ninety million additional births per year. These numbers would mean nothing except that every one of them requires resources for their wellbeing. Food shortages usually occur in areas where there is overwhelming population growth such as Asia and the Pacific. Statistic show that people who are more educated usually delay having children. In a world where capitalism is the norm, the educated few live comfortably while the backward many starve. We can help through volunteerism by educating families and giving them the tools to make informed choices.
THE GOVERNMENT is the only thing that can stop this. Government in the U.S as well as other countries are the only ones who have the finances and ability to implement and enforce new laws and regulations.. Not to mention the greed factor in all of this. The united states won't get involved unless there's oil. They won't just go in to Somalia and provide food and education and other resources that those people need. The u.s will only do it if they get something of value in return. Oil, diamonds, cheap labor, and so on and so on. It's an ugly way to put it? It's the truth.. Sorry to all of those who are poor, and have 15 kids.. But this is something that won't change.I have a feeling that what will eventually happen is if the governments get together and start secretly killing people by large masses. Cause it's " easier" or " cheaper" .. You know.. The American way.
I am American. I also know that I am very lucky to have food without having the worries of where my next meal will come from. Americans and European trend to consume more than we actually intend to. We don’t really notice at times that there are people out there who don’t have the benefits like us in the US or Europe, that at times we even waste food by throwing away left overs. Maybe the reason for food prices have gone up is to try to make us consume and buy less food. That way maybe some of the food can be sent to place that is really needed for people who prove for their families. Another reason why prices may have gone up is because the weather has really taken a turn for the worse and may have made the land unable to grow anything. One thing is for sure, population has grown in the last couple years and feeding the world population is going to prove difficult.
-Alexandra Acevedo
The food demand has been rising due to the high pace development in other countries. With the addition of high oil prices, transportation and manufacturing prices increases as well. These factors are in correlation with supply and demand. In these countries many of these occurrences are happening because of the fluctuations in currencies, natural disasters and the use of other energy sources.
Unlike these other countries, the United States is more driven by catching consumers attention rather than factors such as energy efficiency. Packaging is what sells food; it is the colors, design, typeface, and the marketing skill. The shopper is not aware that when purchasing the product it is mainly these factors that are entailed. Unlike other countries who solely pay for the food itself. The ingredients/food the US pays for has had a reasonable price been due from long term contracts and trades, However, because of bad weather, oil prices, and protests, will soon affect US food prices in the following months. Luciana Manrique
As I read the post and the those of my class mates i realize how ignorant i have been in regards to such topic. I know, by default, that there is a major lack of resource in Africa but by no means was I so aware to what extent is it world wide, including near by countries.
40% percent of the world is taken up by humans, the other sixty is everything ells, including open terrain, animals, etc. There is no way that we can control the population, nor how much a person can procreate. But i do think that the only thing that can be controlled is how much a person gives. Not only to others financially, but also make us, the humans, grow our own crops, there is plenty of open land that is sitting there looking pretty rather than doing what it should, growing crops. If the problem is lack of food, then lets all get together as ONE nation and make some changes. At the end, for example, what negative happens in Africa, may impact us in America. With that being said, their "lack of", may one day be our "lack of" so lets work together now.
Yesenia Gonzalez
I wish I had a proposed solution to this problem that sounded somewhat reasonable. What I see in the future, as some have already mentioned, is war over resources. We have already seen plenty of that will oil. How long until fertile farmland becomes as valuable a resource as oil? How long until less developed countries with good land for agricultural use get taken over by more powerful corrupt countries, who want to take advantage of the high demand worldwide for certain food supplies? Corrupt countries who may not even need the food themselves, would certainly want to get involved in trade of valuable food supplies, and fix prices high, according to demand from countries suffering. A possible solution would be for many powerful, developed countries across the world to form an alliance, and designate a certain portion of their fertile farmland for growing food supplies, to be used as needed worldwide. These farms would be regulated by the governments, and distribution of goods would depend on countries in the most need, however ideally distrubution would be equal across the places in need.
I had asked myself many times questions like this one: “How do you fix it?”; it’s not an easy to come up with a solution to the many problems we face. In this case I will say to fix the problem we will have to change peoples’ mind. And that alone is already another problem: “how do we change peoples’ mind? And why?”. What I would say next is not going to be nice, but I can sit here and say “well, if there is a lack of food and it’s growing pretty fast it might mean that we could be next on the list. If so, I (as a selfish creature) should be concern on my own good” but I’m that selfish creature. The UN and UNICEF have donated water and food, but for how long can they keep up with this? It’s obvious that it doesn’t solve the problem rather than help the problem.
If we do change peoples’ mind; what do we change it into? Perhaps, let’s stop leaving in this market world, let’s stop the unstoppable hunger for money and do some good faith. Why not lower the prices of everything, why not stop depraved such as tobacco, alcohol, drugs, etc. and converted into crop fields for food supplies.
Today the problem is out there but tomorrow it can be here. Do we wait until tomorrow to do something about it?
Sandra Manrique
It makes me sick to think of all the people that live on this planet and their is not enough food to go around to feed everyone. We have so many resources that we can work with, there's no reason why ANYONE should be hungry. It's sad to think that the world is so corrupt, so greedy, that we fail to see what is really in front of us. There needs to be some sort of structure. Not just for each country and its governments, but for the planet as a whole. I feel that when it comes to food, and being able to survive, one country shouldn't be allowed more than another. Everything in this world is based on money. All anyone is ever concerned about it how much profit their going to make. I believe there should be a system in which countries trade food with eachother to go around for everyone. We live on a planet thats bigger than we realize, we need to consider all of it and not just what is close to us.
Cristina Casares
This is a matter that has been happening forever. What causes this? To be honest, I do believe is a combination of government, education, and to some extent, culture. Countries like Darfur, and The Democratic Republic of Kongo, whose territories have been ravaged by civil war, and corrupted leaders; food scarce has become a common occurring. To me the only way to somehow solve this problem would be if the country has a powerful leader, who is willing to care about the welfare of his or her society. Somebody who educates people, and show them that the struggles that they are going through are not normal, and should not be tolerated. However, as humans we tend to be selfish. For most of us, if it does not bother us, it does not concern us. Do not get me wrong, I have no problems with being comfortable, but I do have problems with indifference, and ignorance.
Alejandro Gonzalvez
These problems of global starvation, economic depression, and unresolved natural disasters will continue to happen. Only united countries in a global prospective will fix these problems. When Russia and Argentina experience droughts, you can’t expect it won’t affect the countries on the other side of the world. For every dollar someone thrives on, the other suffers. Humans have made ourselves believe that land has boundaries when in fact we live on the same planet. All nations need to unite and set standards on population growth, capacity, and housing. For example, if the Indian government can’t feed their people, all countries need to help and supply. This global pact needs to be more like the communist idea, where everyone needs to be equally aided. But realistically this won’t happen at all or for centuries when some disaster happens that forces everyone to unite. Same could be said with natural disasters, if America gets hit by hurricanes and Europe does not help. Then when Europe gets hit be something, America won’t want or be able to help Europe. Do as you would like to be to you yourself.
-Lisandra Sanchez
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