World's needy are being starved

Twenty million people are at imminent risk of famine in four countries, says a report from The Washington Post. Eight big private US relief organisations enlisted support from big corporations and rock stars to raise money. Their efforts were inspired by the anti-famine movements of the 1980s and 1990s.

Their efforts, in 2017, failed.

No eruption of public interest. Very few famine-related news stories. What went wrong?

The reason is fairly obvious -- according to the news report. "The continuing Trump circus sucks up so much media oxygen that..." famine stories are asphyxiated.

Alternatively...

Perhaps the public are sick and tired of demands for disaster relief.

In the 1980s and 1990s the public poured money into famine relief. What was the result?

Now -- thirty years later -- there is still famine. There are still millions of people at risk of famine. There are still thousands of people dying of starvation and famine-related diseases.

What has been achieved?

Nothing at all.

Okay, a few thousand people have been kept alive. At the cost of billions of dollars in food aid. For what? So that they can continue to have children. So they can continue to degrade their once productive environment. So they can have more and more people attempting to live off the same level of resources. So that there are even more people now dying of starvation.

Oh, except, of course, for the resulting demands that countries which "have more" should send aid to the starving millions. So that those starving millions can breed and eat and destroy and need more and more aid.

Tie food aid to population control. Then, perhaps, there will be actual benefits in food aid.

Meanwhile, don't expect to raise a lot of support for a problem which could use infinite support to grow into an even bigger problem.

Don't blame politics for public apathy. Even the general public is able to learn from thirty years of failure.

Try fixing the cause, rather than throwing money at a problem which only grows as more money is thrown.

Those eight "relief" organisations need to change their focus. Spend their efforts on "prevention". Find an approach which wiill actually fix the problem.

Then the public may be willing to get behind their efforts.

Find a solution. Implement the solution. That would be worth some public support.

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Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
Agamedes Consulting / Problems? Solved.
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