World hunger surpasses 1 billion

[Pawn Power]

One sixth of humanity undernourished - more than ever before (http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/20568/icode/)



19 June 2009, Rome - World hunger is projected to reach a historic high in 2009 with 1 020 million people going hungry every day, according to new estimates published by FAO today.

The most recent increase in hunger is not the consequence of poor global harvests but is caused by the world economic crisis that has resulted in lower incomes and increased unemployment. This has reduced access to food by the poor, the UN agency said.

Capitalism just doesn't work.

[GPDP]

One sixth of humanity undernourished - more than ever before (http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/20568/icode/)




Capitalism just doesn't work.

Cue the Miseans:

BUT IT'S NOT TRUUUUUUUUU CAPITALISM IN A TRUUUUUUU FREE MARKET THIS WOULDN'T HAPPEN

Ah, but I digress. This is absolutely abhorrent.

[rednordman]

[QUOTE=Pawn Power;1471595]One sixth of humanity undernourished - more than ever before (http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/20568/icode/)[QUOTE]....As wealthy people across the world raise a glass to the sheer success and longevity of capitalism....Even after its collapse:rolleyes:.

[Wakizashi the Bolshevik]

This means there are 100 million MORE starving people than the previous year.
And still people here are saying the crisis isn't that bad...

[JammyDodger]

A billion plus reasons and rising to up our game

[Vanguard1917]

One sixth of humanity undernourished - more than ever before (http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/20568/icode/)




Capitalism just doesn't work.

Apparently, it's not that capitalism doesn't work; it's that there are too many mouths to feed in the first place.

http://www.revleft.com/vb/leading-us-billionaires-t109788/index.html

[GPDP]

Apparently, it's not that capitalism doesn't work; it's that there are too many mouths to feed in the first place.

http://www.revleft.com/vb/leading-us-billionaires-t109788/index.html

These dickheads need to be the first ones put up against the wall.

[JammyDodger]

Apparently, it's not that capitalism doesn't work; it's that there are too many mouths to feed in the first place.

http://www.revleft.com/vb/leading-us-billionaires-t109788/index.html


Well if that article in the link is the thoughts of the capitalists God help us (strange wish for an Atheist)

The coast of Africa is very long and could be populated with fisheries, much of the land is actually good, very good in many areas but they lack kit and decent seed, if you walk miles to fetch water every day you are not working the land, simple plumbing could increase poor Africas yeild enormously, man hours lost to simple fixable treatable things and civil wars the UN seem to glaze over, up to there ears in debt that was in most cases not fairly theirs.

Africa is rich in land, mineral wealth and bio diversity, they have everything they need to thrive if given a chance,

It will however take a revolution of the world for that chance to be given.

Population growth will be a problem of major misery in the capitalists future, but the world by no means produces its full capacity of food right now, and for every mouth in severe hunger in the world there is a mouth in the west with two wobbley fat cheeks decorating it.

The capitalists will never solve this.

[LinusRed]

One billion people are starving? Good lord... This is horrible, absolutely horrible! Whoever says capitalism redistributes wealth fairly needs to be beaten with a diamond or something. Argh...

[Faust]

Whoever says capitalism redistributes wealth fairly needs to be beaten with a diamond or something. Argh...

Haha, I couldn't agree more. Now is definitely the time for the Communist movement to step it up.

The capitalist interests in third world countries are disgraceful.. the exploitation of the working class needs to stop, these people need to be fed and not stolen from.

[Incendiarism]

It's not about distribution, the squandering of resources, or the corruption of the world market...it's the people stuck in it!

[LinusRed]

Haha, I couldn't agree more. Now is definitely the time for the Communist movement to step it up.

The capitalist interests in third world countries are disgraceful.. the exploitation of the working class needs to stop, these people need to be fed and not stolen from.


Haha, indeed. Exploitation is not cool... and the free market has clearly failed these one billion.

[Revy]

Hunger is not just a problem in Africa, in Haiti it is a huge problem as well, in fact, Haiti is the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. Hunger is so bad that making "mud cakes" out of dirt, water, salt and vegetable oil is a common practice.

Haiti needs a revolution, not the return to power of that populist Aristide, but a real socialist revolution.

[Jack]

Hunger is not just a problem in Africa, in Haiti it is a huge problem as well, in fact, Haiti is the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. Hunger is so bad that making "mud cakes" out of dirt, water, salt and vegetable oil is a common practice.

Haiti needs a revolution, not the return to power of that populist Aristide, but a real socialist revolution.

In Haiti most of the rainforest has been cut down for sale as charcoal. They made a few bucks a day, and now the only forest is left up in the highest mountains.

My city's full of Haitian immigrants.

[LinusRed]

Haiti could be the next Cuba... the people will soon be angry, I hope. And maybe some young charismatic individual will inspire a revolution. If there is a dictator, I pray they are benevolent. If there is not a dictator and it is indeed a true Communist revolution, or at least a socialist one, then that is awesome. But, I can't imagine the people of Haiti putting up for their plight much longer.

[Faust]

My school was donating old school supplies and shoes to schools in Haiti... I found it amusing that someone threw in a brand new pair of NIKE shoes.

[LinusRed]

Haha, how tragically ironic. Though, that's a good program your school had.

[benhur]

Capitalism is the problem alright, but what do people think of overpopulation? Earth doesn't have infinite resources and if there are less number of people, each person could possess more of those resources.

I am just wondering, that's all. Hope someone can explain this to me. If there is less food and more people, there are only two solutions: either production of food must increase or population must come down.

In the former, all the resources will be wasted on food production (due to exploding population) when the same labor, capital etc. can be used for something better (such as investing in space travel, nanotechnology).

Again, I am just learning. I am not saying this is my view. I simply want to get different views on this matter.

[cyu]

either production of food must increase or population must come down


Or you stop having hundreds of people working on building mansions for capitalists, working as crew members on the yachts of capitalists, grooming the golf courses that only serve capitalists, and trying to find new ways to tap the rich capitalist market created by their spending power.

In other words, if there weren't capitalism, there wouldn't be so much labor, raw materials, and machinery being wasted on a tiny fraction of the population. Capitalism itself decreases the amount of resources available to everyone else.

[The Watcher]

Apparently, it's not that capitalism doesn't work; it's that there are too many mouths to feed in the first place.

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The population of Earth is nearing a limit, where the planet can not support us anymore, for long.
That limit is probably somewhere around 7.5-8 billion.
There aren't toooooooooooo many people on the Earth (yet).
They are just crappily located. And shittily governed.

[AvanteRedGarde]

People have always starved, not because of overpopulation but because of the stage in the mode of production and the relations therein.

[RedHal]

Haha, how tragically ironic. Though, that's a good program your school had.

no it shows the sickness of the system and the gross disparity between the first world and the 3rd. Our old used shoes and school supplies, not good enough for us, so we send them to Haiti. I'm sure the school did not mention how western imperialism and the global capitalist system ruins countries like Haiti. Nah, let's give them our trash and feel good about ourselves.:sneaky:

[RebelDog]

We can only hope that sooner rather than later, the world unites to smash this murderous, barbaric system and puts paid to its horrendous outcomes because nothing is going to change unless we do. We should get all the politicians, all the big capitalists, the IMF, the WTO and the World Bank and put them on some god-forsaken island somewhere and let the brutal free-market policies they protect themselves from, but insist on forcing on to billions of the global population, reign over themselves and we could all watch them rot. They don't even deserve that.

[NoMore]

I think we should just say fuck world hunger and have more eating competitons and just keep consuming for the hell of it. I'm tired of all you damn commies and anarchistic sodomites crying about world hunger and human suffering.:crying: Why can't you all just shut up and eat your big mac like jesus wants you to.:rolleyes:

[Wakizashi the Bolshevik]

And still there are so many morons who tell me in discussions "Communism has killed so many people". Capitalism has killed billions and is killing thousands more every fucking single day!!! Some people are just blind, apparantly.

We Communists should do anything necessary to stop the capitalist bastards from starving millions of people. And by anything, I really mean anything.