by Jack
(Shown left is the Wadi Al Sallam, world’s largest burial site) As you are probably aware a severe famine in Somalia is threatening the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. Local Somali fighters (mostly Islamic fanatics) deny there is a food crisis and say they will kill anyone trying to bring in aid. They don’t want any westerners coming around… for any reason. It’s another human tragedy in the making. Of course there will be a massive effort to help the starving, despite the dangers and most, hopefully, will be saved.
In Europe and North America liberals and socialists cite this and any other climate cause crisis as yet another example of man-made global warming and it’s a renewed call to action! This is the part that troubles me most. Because the demands being made to fight this man-caused climate change seem so absurd and threaten many successful western societies.
However terrible famines are they have been with us throughout history. Long before anyone dreamed of blaming them on global warming we have had global famines of Biblical proportions. Between 108 BC and 1911 AD there were no fewer than 1828 major famines in China, or one nearly every year in one or another province; however, the famines varied greatly in severity. There were 95 famines in Britain during the Middle Ages.
It is believed that a severe drought between 800-1000 AD hit millions of Mayan people and caused the collapses of their civilization. Later another drought between 1450-1454 caused a famine in the Aztec Empire. Through ignorance and superstition they foolishly interpreted this a sign that the gods’ needed human sacrifices.
Famine in East Prussia around 1710 killed 41% of its population. Between 1769-1773 the great Bengal famine caused the deaths of over 10 million or 1/3rd of the population of India.
Despite the famines, (plagues and war) the world population has had continuous growth since the end of the Bubonic Plague, the Great Famine and the Hundred Years Wars in 1350, when it was about 300 million.
The world should have about 45-50 billion people on it right now if had it not be for changing weather that led to major famines and diseases over the last 3000 years.
The current world population stands at about 6.9 billion, contrast that against the global population of around 200 million in the year One.
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As for deaths caused by wars, this is completely unknowable. War has existed from the time the first cavemen could pick up a rock. But, consider in just a short period of about 70 years 100 million people died under communism. So it’s safe to say billions upon billions have died in war, but how many billions, we couldn’t even come close to guessing. The world would be quite a difference place today if it had not been for these famines, diseases, natural disasters and war.
Pondering away, I was reminded again of the futility and ignorance of leftist causes. Nearly everything they want to “fix” either cannot ever be fixed permanently (poverty)or would be better left alone (the economy). Their fixes are often as lethal or dangerous as the problem (banning DDT)and sometimes more so given the harmlessness of the perceived danger (light bulbs).
People have been starving to death for centuries.
Why should we even bother trying 21st century answers?
Screw ’em. They should have been born rich.
Laughing you really are a twisted human being and so filled with hate!
Do you disagree that poverty, the poor, will always be with us? If so, history (and Biblical teaching) will make you a liar.
Do you also realize that some think they can actually “end” hunger?
Who said we shouldn’t feed the hungry anyway? I said progressive solutions usually suck…and they do. Our welfare system is about giving a man a fish, not teaching him to fish.