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Sustenance: Where Will Hunger Strike (MAP)

awesome.good.is — There are more than 30 countries where food emergencies persist. This is a look at why those countries are in trouble.

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  • eigenweasel, on 07/18/2009, -2/+22Excessive population growth is common to many of these regions.

    7 live births per woman + Western medicine + Western food aid = Overpopulation.
  • pingpants, on 07/18/2009, -0/+10 ...entry about 4,800 tree is incredible; don't molest Methuselah!
  • StanleyKoolPrik, on 07/19/2009, -0/+8website = obnoxious
  • ludditte, on 07/18/2009, -0/+8they tried to force me to enable javascript to see some publicity, fail. I'll figure by myself that most of the 30 countries are in Africa.
  • 17999, on 07/18/2009, -0/+7Sam Kinison covered this, may he rest in peace.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0q4o58pKwA
  • threon, on 07/18/2009, -0/+7They should go to McDonald's.
  • Animal, on 07/18/2009, -0/+7What's with the forced javascript? ***** that.
  • zaffir, on 07/19/2009, -0/+7Talk about an obnoxious way to display an infographic.
  • Mike17102, on 07/19/2009, -0/+6Those with so little should stop having litters.

    If food is short, 8 babies might not be the way to go.
  • Meor, on 07/18/2009, -1/+6Why? To create dependents who can't sustain themselves? So their population can grow even bigger until even the largest donations from those that "have so much" become "had so much" and now there's no one to fix the problem?

    The most ethical solution to the problem is contraceptives and sterilization.
  • nugz85, on 07/19/2009, -0/+4This site is a Prius advertisement, explore the site a bit more. Thats some good viral marketing.
  • Zanius, on 07/19/2009, -0/+2I think it was malthus
  • Sornos, on 07/18/2009, -0/+2So the solution of corruption and warfare is to take the people responsible by force? That would only end in the same. Think of all the so called "revolutionary forces" in Africa that are just as dangerous as the people they are trying to displace. Bloodshed begets bloodshed.
  • hairysandwich, on 07/19/2009, -0/+2THis is the worst goddamn site on the internet. The excessive flash and stupid graphics obfuscate the actual message. I've looked at some of the charts and gone WTF? Also the flash is just so goddamn irritating. Everything about this site is just way overkill. If you have a message it's ok to tart it up a little so people find it interesting enough to stick around and read, but this site is over the top with flash.
  • inactive, on 07/19/2009, -0/+2Chipotle, comes with a salad and rice.
  • Sornos, on 07/19/2009, -0/+2Thanks Zanius, it was Thomas Robert Malthus about whom I was referring.
  • tinkafoo, on 07/18/2009, -0/+1I haven't seen that in over 20 years... and unlike some of the stand-up stuff today, it's still funny!
  • Super6, on 07/19/2009, -0/+1Can't you just show a map of the world? Hunger strikes everywhere 3 times a day
  • mandraque, on 07/18/2009, -0/+1and what country are you from?
  • itsxclusive, on 07/18/2009, -0/+1yay aid dependency!!!
  • bcronos, on 07/18/2009, -0/+1From 1970:

    “Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”
    • Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

    “By…[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.”
    • Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist
  • yournightmare, on 07/18/2009, -0/+1Adam Smith? He died in the 18th century but I guess that's who you're talking about.
  • Sornos, on 07/18/2009, -0/+1People have been saying that for far longer than Mr. Ehrlich. It is simple biology. Boom and bust.
    Perhaps a person with a greater memory than I can name the fellow who lived in the 19th century who made this idea more concrete. A former economist I think. Adams or something.
  • hairysandwich, on 07/19/2009, -0/+1An area of land has what's called a "carrying capacity" an amount of life it can sustain. If the amount of people living on the land exceeds it's carrying capacity, then the excess people die from starvation. It doesn't help that the people who will eventually starve probably live in deserts environments that have a low carrying capacity to begin with.
  • hairysandwich, on 07/19/2009, -0/+1Whew, thanks for the info, for a second there I thought overpopluation and no resources was a problem! It turns out the REAL problem, is that we're all insensitive....
  • Equinamin, on 07/19/2009, -0/+1Marketing is the dish' the facts and great works is the Poutine' and gravy for many who are challenged with
    access to basic primary health care.
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    Corporate and Health together' trying to irradicate Virus's.
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  • TheNinjaDood, on 07/18/2009, -0/+1stomach?
  • bcronos, on 07/19/2009, -0/+1McChickens for the world!
  • dman24752, on 07/19/2009, -1/+1Why is the web address awesome.good.is? Sure it is, but hunger is neither awesome nor good. The map is neither awesome nor good either. It's rather poorly designed...
  • inactive, on 07/18/2009, -2/+1In my country we are lucky to an extent, but overall the hard worker, we can all appreciate politicians to eat. We must help the world, yet we do nothing. WHY? In my country we do not think we are staving around the hard workers, yet some slack to eat. WHY? In my country we do nor think we are here for a reason, but one chance. Many are lucky to eat. Many are staving around the world, yet some slack to get a gun.
  • inactive, on 07/18/2009, -2/+1For I have lived here many years. The United State of America is where many years.
  • solid12345, on 07/18/2009, -5/+2Send the people guns, not food. It is usually government corruption and warfare that leads to starvation of its people.
  • allenglines878, on 07/18/2009, -5/+0Those who have so much should give more to those who have so little.
  • Presbyterian, on 07/18/2009, -10/+2High birth rates are a symptom of poverty, not a cause.

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