Jakob von Uexkull

>When remembering the recent horrific acts of violence, let us
>not forget that on September 11th there were 35,000 other very
>innocent victims. For that is the number of children dying
>every day from starvation-related causes. Where is the global
>outcry, the unprecedented coalition, the unlimited resources of
>money, materials, time and will dedicated to stopping this daily
>violence? These children are being killed by commercial and
>financial terrorism. There can be no other term for policies
>which force the poor to sacrifice their children to pay compound
>interest on dubious debts to the rich, while the North refuses to
>honour its historical and ecological debts to the South.
>Jakob von Uexkull

Unfortunately, it isn't this simple. The solution isn't this
simple, because you can't feed an infinite number of people
on a finite planet, so there's something about population density
and growth missing here. The problem isn't this simple either.
Starvation has existed since dense societies first appeared on
the Earth. Commerce is something else that's existed since then,
but classical causality here is a stretch at best.

Surviving in a place is the responsibilty of the people attempting
it. If I come in and mine bauxite, it's a different story.
Unfortunately, when two societies come in contact and one is too
far behind the other to allow profitable trade, one and only one
thing has ever happened in all of history, to my knowledge: the
complete destruction of the less-advanced society and most often
the complete extermination of its people. That's reality. Want
to change it? It will take one powerful-serious attempt,
different than anything that's ever been tried, for which I will
be among the first to volunteer in whatever way I can. But count
me out of pity. I love human life and death too much.

-Carl