Famine again in Africa
Discussion
I was just watching the news and it would appear that East Africa and Ethiopia have asked for world food aid again 25 years after Live Aid set out to end this very situation.
So
1, Where has all the Billions pumped into Africa gone?
2, What has actually been achieved as here we are right back where we started
3, The BBC says that these people are the Victims of Climate change
. Surely the fact athat these people were in exactly the same boat 25 years ago suggest that it has sod all to do with climate change and perhaps due to the fact that the unsuitable climate has not changed (to their benefit)
Discuss

So
1, Where has all the Billions pumped into Africa gone?
2, What has actually been achieved as here we are right back where we started
3, The BBC says that these people are the Victims of Climate change

Discuss

FourWheelDrift said:
Pesty said:
7mike said:
The report I watched also mentioned that the population of Ethiopia has doubled in the last 25 years
did we make things worse?
"It gets dark at night and there's nothing else to do."
odyssey2200 said:
elster said:
loltolhurst said:
they said it was probably global warming on the bbc news....
I think it was more localised warming and a lack of rain. Hardly rocket science, obviously a bit over the heads of the BBC journos.
It's justthe same as it was 25 years ago
Much like all heatwaves or cold spells.
I believe the technical name for it is weather.
elster said:
odyssey2200 said:
elster said:
loltolhurst said:
they said it was probably global warming on the bbc news....
I think it was more localised warming and a lack of rain. Hardly rocket science, obviously a bit over the heads of the BBC journos.
It's justthe same as it was 25 years ago
Much like all heatwaves or cold spells.
I believe the technical name for it is weather.

Shay HTFC said:
odyssey2200 said:
Seriously, if you were on the limits of survival, would you be be breading like rabbits?
Yes, perhaps we made things worse
Kids are often seen as a loan package. The more kids, the more help on the farm etc etc.Yes, perhaps we made things worse

Edited by odyssey2200 on Thursday 22 October 23:42
My mother can remember "collecting pennies for thr brown babies" as it was called by the church when she was growing up in Ireland in the 1940's!!
And it wasn't a new issue then either ....
Its just the way that Africa is.
I know thats not the nicest thing to say but it is the long and short of it, people come along (white colonial's arab slavers, black warlords whoever) and rape the land for everything its worth without giving a toss about the indigenious people, then f
k off with what they have taken, and so the cycle continues!
And it wasn't a new issue then either ....
Its just the way that Africa is.
I know thats not the nicest thing to say but it is the long and short of it, people come along (white colonial's arab slavers, black warlords whoever) and rape the land for everything its worth without giving a toss about the indigenious people, then f

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