Saturday, October 12, 2013

Is it possible to eliminate starvation?

7 billion people, that is the approximate population on the earth and it is rising as we speak. 33% of these people are malnourished or suffering of starvation. Now say every country in the world, or better yet the world as a whole were to adopt some sort of socialist approach to governing our everyday life and society (which is highly unlikely because people would stop trying),
 the money would be spread our evenly and i'm fairly sure everyone would have a decent amount of money in their pockets since currently more or less all the countries in the
world have a small percent of the populous with more money then the rest of the entire country combined. So there would be easily enough money to go around, but then the question comes up is would that money do anything. If we think about it, money is just paper or metal, depending on whether it is bills or change. Money actually has very little use, other then currency. If everyone was to go out in this socialist governing system and went to the grocery stores of their respective countries and bought all the food needed to support their families, my question is would there be enough food available to support all these people.

Frankly i'm not going to approach this using all statistics because that would take years to get all the statistics on the food produced by each country and the potential farming land available etc. instead we will approach question using the philosophical approach; logic.

My view is, the world cannot and will not every be able to eliminate poverty. Not to be a pessimist ,but if you factor the sheer amount of people we have and the amount of people that we would have by the time we established some system it seems unlikely we would be able to provide for everyone. Also if it was possible then why isn't it already done.

As I said before we have 7 billion humans on earth and growing, potentially reaching an estimated 14 billion before the end of the century. Now the population of the earth is going to double and we cant even feed everyone right now and i doubt the size of the earth is going to double just to help us feed the doubled population. You see the thing is, its not even like we have small appetites, we need a lot of food to sustain our large brains along with he rest of our body and unfortunately we are large consumers and eat more then any other animal species on this planet. Have you ever heard that statistic that if all the insects died, everything would die in 50 years, but if the humans died nature would flourish in 50 years. We are the cause of mother natures problems and that is with a large percentile of us still not being fed, now imagine how drained mother nature would be if she could possibly feed all the people we had on earth. Also take into consideration that a large amount of the people we have comes from 3rd world countries they are poor and there is little education. Families have children that they cannot provide  for in hopes that one of their many children will survive. They would not only have the same have lots of babies mentality, but would also have enough food to feed all their kin. They would continue to use no birth control and, their bodies would be healthier with the food, which would resulting in more successful births and more births due to greater stability. This would be taken advantage of (not with bad intentions) but if we somehow could feed everyone, having enough food wouldn't last long with the sapping of mother nature along with the increase in population.

Now ask yourself this, if it was possible to provide for everyone on earth then why hasn't it been done before. One you would need some socialism governing system for all countries and that wouldn't happen, second, countries better for producing food would have to give to countries food with countries with less optimal growing soil. and third after doing all that they would find that the soil would be leached of its nutrients quickly. But say i'm wrong, then why hasn't it been done before. humans are selfish creatures at times, but we also have a strong sense of community and feel sympathy for people less fortunate. We are very caring and empathetic and its not like anyone enjoys poverty so my idea is that its impossible to provide for everyone or else it would have been done already. Because of the compassionate nature of humans, we would have come together before and done it or started trying doing if it was possible. The reason why most people don't do anything about it anymore is because most believe that it is impossible and there is nothing we can do about poverty. Now of course that is untrue i believe we should help the less fortunate only thing is, i doubt we will be able to feed everyone (doesn't mean you cant try though).

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