Loading ...Sending food will do nothing to alleviate starvation. It’s all political. I remember reading in the Telegraph in the early seventies how 10% of Ethiopia was starving. And how GBP500,000 of whisky had just been unloaded at the Mogadishu, the (then) Ethiopian port. And I concluded that:
a) if only 10% of the population is starving, surely the other 90% could spare 10% of their food for the starving ones and:
b) half a million quids’ worth of whisky can hardly be considered famine relief
therefore there is no political will to help. A mate who was living in Ethiopia at the time later confirmed this. The only ones starving are the anti-government tribes. Sending food is barmy, as it will only end up with the pro-govt tribes, or sold on for the benefit of govt. officials.
Bear in mind there really isn’t any excuse for famine as the earth is a whole lot greener (which Attenborough also hates, as, like, it makes more CO2 seem like a good thing – which it undoubtably is) and any famine is probably govt. contrived.