Just a reminder that all famine is political. The world, as a whole, produces more than it consumes. Famine is a political willingness to let certain people sta

Just a reminder that all famine is political. The world, as a whole, produces more than it consumes. Famine is a political willingness to let certain people starve and die. It could be one internal group in a country willing to starve another. It could be entities external to the country willing to let it starve. Functionally, famine is little different to death squads. Further to this, we have a sanitized term in the modern era for intentionally starving people to death. It's called "economic sanctions" [1]. [1]: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/3/25/lets-remember-madeleine-albright-as-who-she-really-was https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/3/25/lets-remember-m...