Posted on 12/05/2002 6:05:13 AM PST by Clive
New York - Africa faces an unprecedented hunger crisis, with 38 million people threatened by starvation, the head of the United Nations's food relief agency has warned.
James Morris, executive director of the World Food Programme, told the Security Council on Tuesday that the only obstacle to ending hunger tomorrow was lack of political will.
Instead of making the political decisions and earmarking the money to eliminate hunger, "UN member states have unwittingly adopted policies that make the idea of ending hunger little more than fantasy," said Morris.
"We are now confronted with the possibility of mass starvation in several regions in Africa - in a half dozen countries in the south, in the Horn of Africa and in parts of the Sahel."
Earlier on Tuesday, 15 American humanitarian groups met Morris in Baltimore to urge governments, citizens' groups and private citizens to help Africans plagued by famine and Aids.
The relief groups, which include the American Red Cross, Save the Children, and Catholic Relief Services, say more than 34 million people in sub- Saharan Africa face death by starvation in the next six to eight months.
Morris told an open Security Council meeting late on Tuesday that Africa faced a drought far more widespread than ever before, at a time of massive demands for food aid in places such as Afghanistan, North Korea and parts of Central America.
"If we are to make real progress against hunger in Africa - both chronic and in these emergencies - difficult political choices will have to be made, both by African states and traditional donor countries," he said.
"For the short term, we will need a major infusion of funds for humanitarian relief, and stronger and better co-operation from recipient governments; for the long term we will need reforms in governance and economic policy in Africa."
The severity of the food crisis in Africa, where the World Food Programme is struggling to feed 38 million new victims of food crises, "is certainly on a scale that threatens political stability and security", said Morris.
"People are hungry because their governments have made the wrong political decisions," Morris added. "In the end, hunger is a political creation and we must use political means to end it." - Sapa-AP
Give me a break. "Unwitting"? B.S.
As if the Club of Rome doesn't know what it's doing and isn't interested in population reduction.
If the politics are at the end of a gun it will work, these tin-pot dictators won't step down without being forced to and guess who will be the first ones to denounce us if we did that? You and your friends.
As usual the've got their priorities wrong. The first priority should be fixing the governance problem because as sure as h*ll if the immediate problem of starvation is fixed any attempt to fix the political problem will be deferred in perpetuity. Aid recipient countries need to be given a list of reforms that are conditions precedent to getting any food aid e.g free and fair elections, no political prisioners, protection of property rights, impartial judiciary. Unless they implement structural reform this problem is going to come back every four or five years and guess who gets the bill?
The severity of the food crisis in Africa, where the World Food Programme is struggling to feed 38 million new victims of food crises, "is certainly on a scale that threatens political stability and security", said Morris.
If it threates the current regimes in Africa then good, they need to be replaced with democratically accountable administrations. We need to stop funding these tin pot dictatorships. Our aid is really fungible with the rest of the funds necessary to keep a country running and we should do it unilaterally, the UN or its agencies will never impose the political reforms necessary to stop this problem.
You all should be very pleased with them, these Club of Rome members. They'll cheerily tell you they are doing this for YOU. Is it not wonderful at how morality has been post-modernized in your name? Who here we be the first to sponsor a celebration in your benefactors' honor? How about each candle on the cake commemorating 1 million innocent fellow human beings having been culled that year? (WAIT. Looks like we may need another cake).
Thye have been traditionally ruled by what Walter Williams calls "Kleptocracies".
Yes indeed, C_A, starvation is so much surer and quicker. Death delivered via agents like those slovenly, unreliable, but naturally occuring mosquitoes, provide less joy to our globalist demigods. Now that their intentions are so much more transparent, so that even the dolts at FreeRepublic notice, they prefer their role be more noticeable.
Paraphrasing Stalin: How many legions do traditional God-based moralists command?
Oops, cna't tpye.
Unwittingly? In the words of Lilly Von Schtupp, this is BOOL-SHEET.
Keeping the people starving keeps the overseas checks coming.
Banning DDT actually made the overpopulation problem worse (which shows how pathetically stupid these globalist titans really are). People need to have more kids when so many die in youth; they need children to work when they get sick. The most effective form of population control is to prosper. People get too busy to have more kids.
I am going to add a little to this discussion in support of your allegations, because those who are not familiar with the monsters running these envronmental NGOs will otherwise have a hard time believing them.
According to a former Environmental Defense Fund attorney, Victor Yanncone, when Dr. Charles Wurster of the EDF was confronted with the evidence of 270,000,000 cases of malaria because of the ban of DDT and the millions of lives lost every year to infections that could have been prevented, he stated, "this was as good a way for getting rid of (overpopulation) as any." Another famous quote from Mr. Wurster reads, "It doesn't really make a lot of difference because the organo phosphate acts locally and only kill (sic) farm workers and most of them are Mexicans and Negroes." Victor Yanncone was soon fired from the EDF for not being a "team player." Mr. Wurster has since denied the allegations but has not sued for slander either.
BTW, Do you have much evidence supporting the charge that the banning of both DDT and Freons (to name two examples) show how environmental laws effectively work for staving off low priced competition from generics where patents had expired, and maybe exposing the cash trail from the industrial dinosaurs to university "studies" as well as NGO activities?
Such lapses as you exposed in this thread cannot be exposed often enough.
Do you recall that one clown with whom I've acquainted you? He once, when confronted with such evidence of the Industrialist motivation for statism, said: "Who cares? If it helps us pass enviro legislation, that ought to placate you capitalists." But only once. When virtually all reacted negatively to what he wrote, he eschewed such rare moments of honesty from then on.
Other African states (leaders) won't make choices for the people, they are only interested in their own power.
I should remember to speak thus now that control's a fait accompli.
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