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Destineed369 20 points ago +20 / -0

Imagine how great it would be if everyone in DC workered with each other and for the American people. We would have colonies on mars and ended worked hunger by this point.

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BigPanda71 13 points ago +13 / -0

World hunger isn’t a problem that’s going to be fixed based on anything we do as a country. We could send enough food to feed everyone in Africa fives times over and people there would still starve. But the government leaders and warlords would eat like kings

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FergieJR 4 points ago +5 / -1

It is even more bleak than that. People often bred until they are not sustainable anymore.

The potatoe famine in ireland is a great example of this

Ireland could only sustain a low population, once the tader showed up their population grew several times over a few generations.

But then the potatoes all disappeared and the mass starving was dropping back to sustainable levels

This is the issue with sending food to a 3rd world.

It just allows them to keep their population growing while unable to grow food still. If the aid stops not instead of 1 million people starving it's 10million. Now what?

FYI shitty warlords don't help either.

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Countercultureconser 7 points ago +7 / -0

FYI. The Irish had more than enough food to eat even with the potato failure. The English were the landowners and forced the Irish to ship the food out of Ireland even when people were starving. Some people consider this an intentional genocide.

https://culinarylore.com/food-history:myths-about-great-irish-potato-famine/

Also, African is often brought up in this same kind of myth. Africa has some of the largest tracts of fertile food growing land.Communism is what keeps African from feeding itself. It is so fertile that China is trying to colonize Africa right now to get access to that food growing land.