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On the plus side, hunger is decreasing quickly. For the couple of remaining places with hunger, the causes are political as you say. But the rest of the world
by FredPret 2y ago
On the plus side, hunger is decreasing quickly.
For the couple of remaining places with hunger, the causes are political as you say. But the rest of the world is in most cases not "letting it" happen. We're sending food and aid, sometimes at risk to the aid workers delivering the food.
- davidw 2y ago> We're sending food and aid We (US) were, now we are cutting back. People will starve because of this.
- genewitch 2y ago[flagged]
- Spooky23 2y agoThe person you help abroad today is the person not going to take your stuff tomorrow. Even the notoriously woke Roman Emperors would hand out grain to the crowd.
- genewitch 2y agoThat's an awful lot of rowing to come take our "grain." and if this concerns you, donate.
- davidw 2y agoYou can make the case for that, but a disorderly transition to that kind of system will ensure that some people starve to death before the new system is in place. I don't have any of the purported 'savings' in my pocket right now and I don't suppose I'll see them any time soon, so I don't have any extra money. Quite the contrary, what with the stock market tanking.
- 8note 2y agowhy do that when laws have already been passed about sending that money abroad? id much rather add better transparency and audits to the money already being spent through the government
- genewitch 2y agowell, that didn't work (waiting for audits and transparency) for 20+ years, so we're doing it this way now. Donate to causes you believe in, don't rely on the government to do good. do it yourself.
- guiriduro 2y agoDepends who "we" are in this context of course, but there's a middle eastern country whom the USA shower with military aid, that is committing a genocide and using starvation as a weapon, and the US is absolutely letting, even encouraging that to happen.