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http://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats http://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats Quote: "Poor nutrition causes nearly half (45%) of deaths in children under five - 3.1 million
by lutusp 13y ago
http://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats http://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats
Quote: "Poor nutrition causes nearly half (45%) of deaths in children under five - 3.1 million children each year."
I invite anyone to try to dismiss the fact that 3.1 million children starve to death each year.
- maxerickson 13y agoFor the most part, the present problem is not due to a global shortage of food: http://www.wfp.org/hunger/causes http://www.wfp.org/hunger/causes 100 billion seems like it would be a challenge.
- dllthomas 13y agoI'd also note, from the earlier link: "842 million people in the world do not have enough to eat. This number has fallen by 17 percent since 1990." We have 1.9 billion more people today than we had in 1990, and we are failing to feed fewer individuals. We're not just feeding more people. We're not even just leaving a smaller percentage starving. We have many more people, and fewer people are starving. "There are too many people, relative to how much food we can produce" is not the dominant effect here.
- dllthomas 13y agoPlease establish that those children starving is because of overpopulation.