Humanitarian Crisis Endangering Twenty Million Lives Over The Coming Months

[Kingpoleon]

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[SoLongAtlas]

This is a sad continuation of a problem the world has continued to overlook but if we don't get global overpopulation under control, this will be the case on every continent. We are currently on track to hit over 11 billion people by 2100 with climate change factors kicking in a steady but worsening situation for food production. That is the big problem here, Africa is a major example of it in the here and now. Meanwhile, the latest cat pictures on FB, Twitter, etc...

[Beet]

Africa would get our attention if China started moving more troops into the area.

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This is a sad continuation of a problem the world has continued to overlook but if we don't get global overpopulation under control, this will be the case on every continent. We are currently on track to hit over 11 billion people by 2100 with climate change factors kicking in a steady but worsening situation for food production. That is the big problem here, Africa is a major example of it in the here and now. Meanwhile, the latest cat pictures on FB, Twitter, etc...

It's nothing to do with overpopulation.

[Boston Bread]

This is a sad continuation of a problem the world has continued to overlook but if we don't get global overpopulation under control, this will be the case on every continent. We are currently on track to hit over 11 billion people by 2100 with climate change factors kicking in a steady but worsening situation for food production. That is the big problem here, Africa is a major example of it in the here and now. Meanwhile, the latest cat pictures on FB, Twitter, etc...

It's nothing to do with overpopulation.

Overpopulation is not the source of the problem, but if the population of Africa goes from 1 billion to 4 billion this century that would be 4x the amount of aid effort required to solve everything, ignoring all other effects (in reality it would probably be more than 4x due to the additional strain on the African environment).

[Beet]

This is a sad continuation of a problem the world has continued to overlook but if we don't get global overpopulation under control, this will be the case on every continent. We are currently on track to hit over 11 billion people by 2100 with climate change factors kicking in a steady but worsening situation for food production. That is the big problem here, Africa is a major example of it in the here and now. Meanwhile, the latest cat pictures on FB, Twitter, etc...

It's nothing to do with overpopulation.

Overpopulation is not the source of the problem, but if the population of Africa goes from 1 billion to 4 billion this century that would be 4x the amount of aid effort required to solve everything, ignoring all other effects (in reality it would probably be more than 4x due to the additional strain on the African environment).

Instead of aid, why not let them earn their own sustenance by, in effect, making stuff for us that we pay with using fiat "money" that we just print out willy nilly? Oh wait... "nationalism." Aid it is!

[Boston Bread]

Businesses avoid building sweatshops in unstable countries with no infrastructure, so employing them is not going to be an option for the poorest and most fragile states.

As to how I'd solve the problem, I feel like farm subsidies could be retooled as a form of foreign aid. The government could reimburse farmers for crops they donate to famine stricken areas.

[Storebought]

I don't think Africa's problems are necessarily ones do to overpopulation (people aren't aware of how immense Africa is as a continent), but they certainly aren't helped by foreign missionaries (Catholic, evangelical, Islamic) reinforcing traditional African taboos about family planning.

It also doesn't help matters that the parts of Africa most threatened by famine are the ones run by the absolute worst governments in the continent.

Businesses avoid building sweatshops in unstable countries with no infrastructure, so employing them is not going to be an option for the poorest and most fragile states.

That's only true for the US businesses, where even a market as developed as Mexico's is still regarded as "emerging". Chinese and Middle Eastern businesses, for good and ill, are far risk averse.

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That's a god-awful plan! India didn't eradicate its tradition of famine by regular US farm aid.