why bail out hunger?
We all know that satisfying the basic needs is key to a good or at least tolerable life: you cannot be happy if you are dying of hunger.
We also know that there are enough resources to eradicate hunger for ever from the face of the earth and those who do the maths ask this question:
Could Just 4% of the Wall Street Bailout End World Hunger?
http://www.ecosalon.com/could_just_4_of_the_wall_street_bailout_end_world_hunger/
I am happy for the question mark, because just having the resources will not solve the problem – which is a problem only for those dying of hunger, of course.
No matter how much money there is, as long as
- there is no will to spend it on food for the hungry
- the employees of the government agencies or the NGOs who distribute the funds are corrupt and put that money or large parts of it into their own pockets
- some governments systematically kill their own co-citizens – not only through starvation but also actively shooting them
there will be no eradication, yea not even serious mitigation of hunger.
The mass murder through letting people starve to death will go ahead as it always has since history is being recorded. The number of the victims has grown exponentially – but who cares?
The larger context is – as we also know: overpopulation. But who cares to go one step further and stop the exponential growth of world population through appropriate programs.
hundreds of billions for the banks, less than one billion euros for the starving
I don’t even feel like commenting on this. Read the facts and judge for yourself about what kind of a world we are living in and then maybe start thinking about the possibilities of changing it. (Don’t forget the Max-Neef’s needs-based model.)
A dramatic increase in food prices over the last year has pushed nearly a billion people to the brink of starvation….. According to a new study released on Thursday by the international aid organization Oxfam, the world hunger crisis threatens to slip entirely under the radar as developed countries grow more and more obsessed with the turmoil in financial markets….. Last May, the prospects for fighting world hunger looked much brighter. At a conference held in Rome, industrialized nations pledged $12.3 billion to help combat the problem. So far, though, only $1 billion has been paid out. To put these figures in perspective, German Chancellor Angela Merkel that would commit up to €500 billion ($669 billion) to help bailout German banks and financial institutions…. The United Nations estimates it would require between $25 billion and $40 billion to effectively respond to the world hunger crisis…. Several big multinational corporations linked to agriculture are having banner years. Nestle’s revenues were up nine percent in the first half of 2008, while sales at British supermarket giant Tesco climbed 10 percent. The biggest winner of all might be agribusiness giant Monsanto: Its profits for the first quarter amounted to $3.6 billion, a 26 percent spike over last year.
read the whole article here:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,584512,00.html
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