Letters to the Editor
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Sorry to rain on your feel-bad parade
Mr / Ms. Headline-writer but hunger in Africa doesn't even make the Top 10 of important problems we are facing. When the tidal wave of peak oil and global warming and all the attendant crises wash over the world sometime later this century, famine in Africa is going to look like a rumbling stomach at a church service. There is no sustainable solution to Africa because we don't live in a sustainable world. The irony is, in the long run, Africa probably benefits from the long collapse of the world economy. Once its population stabilizes, Africa is going to be a lot better place to be than, say, Florida (under water) or most of China (a desert).
This is just another exercise in tired 1970s-era Save the World foolish rhetoric. GIVE some of the most notoriously corrupt governments in some of the most lawless countries in the world money? Please. The Pentagon doesn't spend $300 million on propaganda, but gives it to Africa, thereby making the propaganda unneccessary? I can't even summon the energy to roll my eyes at what a ridiculous leap in non-logic that is. This ludicrous sermonizing isn't going to give any Africans food. Billions of dollars have been poured down Africa's gullet for decades, and today there are MORE people with MORE problems. If there is a solution (which I highly doubt), it isn't going to come from interviewing bureaucrats who make a career out of African suffering and then stringing some nonsense together to be put up on the net.