humanitarian aid
Aug. 17th, 2006 11:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
apharGive a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Some countries (e.g., those around the African Horn - Somalia, Ethiopia etc) can feed themselves only in case of a "bumper" crop. Those regions are experiencing a man-made ecological disaster on the scale unimaginable to the industrial societies.
To save the permanently starving, send them contraceptives instead of food.
Some countries (e.g., those around the African Horn - Somalia, Ethiopia etc) can feed themselves only in case of a "bumper" crop. Those regions are experiencing a man-made ecological disaster on the scale unimaginable to the industrial societies.
To save the permanently starving, send them contraceptives instead of food.
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Date: 2006-08-17 06:05 pm (UTC)And/or genetically modified plants. Last year NPR, of all sources, put on a documentary about GMO in Africa. It featured an Ethiopian farmer, who was part of a pilot program with UMich, brandishing a huge GMO legume in one hand and a small regular one in the other and complaining: "These things can feed our whole village! Why do these so-and-so's forbid importing them?"
See also http://reason.com/0004/fe.rb.billions.shtml
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Date: 2006-08-17 06:13 pm (UTC)Malthus is not dead, he is just blinded by technology.
nothing will help people who have kinds they know they will not be able to feed. trying to help such people is immoral.
Pardon my French
Date: 2006-08-18 04:25 am (UTC)Re: Pardon my French
Date: 2006-08-18 01:11 pm (UTC)