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Cumulative worldwide Covid deaths since the start of the pandemic : 5.63 million https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?facet=none&Metr
by themaninthedark 5y ago
Cumulative worldwide Covid deaths since the start of the pandemic : 5.63 million
https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?facet=none&Metric=Confirmed+deaths&Interval=Cumulative&Relative+to+Population=false&Color+by+test+positivity=false&country=~OWID_WRL https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
Yearly deaths due to hunger : 9 million
https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/people-and-poverty/hunger-and-obesity/how-many-people-die-from-hunger-each-year/story https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/people-and-poverty...
More people may die from hunger than Covid :https://www.forbes.com/sites/shaynaharris/2020/07/09/more-people-may-die-from-hunger-than-from-the-coronavirus-this-year-says-aid-group-oxfam/?sh=49bc27a868f4 https://www.forbes.com/sites/shaynaharris/2020/07/09/more-pe...
Yearly hunger deaths are nearly double Covid deaths.
One of the major issues with hunger is that you can not just ship food from a place that has it to a place that doesn't, that ends up wiping out local farmers and creating more food instability.
GMO are the best way to create crops that are drought and insect resistant. This is huge in bot resisting the effects of global warming and also reducing the amount of pesticides we use.
The idea that we can have food that is better for us and the environment and yet there are people that do their best to prevent it's use is insane.
- acdha 5y agoAgain, I don’t oppose GMOs (as you might note from the examples in my comment) but it’s the height of sophistry to claim that they’d solve this problem as effectively as vaccines reduce the risks from the virus actively circulating now. The latter is a direct causal relationship, the former is one factor affecting one of multiple overlapping problems.