Starvation
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If we kill the plankton, we will die of asphyxiation or starvation, take your pick.
Yet again, the face of
starvation
at large scale with more than nine million people wondering if they can make it to the next day.
So in 1965, I went to what was called the worst Bihar famine in India, and I saw starvation, death, people dying of hunger, for the first time.
The specter of mass
starvation
loomed.
These individuals' prenatal experience of
starvation
seems to have changed their bodies in myriad ways.
And at a time of economic collapse when people sold baby dolls and shoe laces and windows and doors just to survive, these girls made the difference between survival and
starvation
for so many.
I was deported to Uganda, where economic deprivation puts everyone at the risk of
starvation.
He explained to me that his parents told him that refugees are people from Africa who come to the US to escape death,
starvation
and disease.
"Just in the nick of time to save the Zambian people from starvation."
So the question is, why did these men dread cannibals so much more than the extreme likelihood of
starvation?
But perhaps if they'd been able to read their fears more like a scientist, with more coolness of judgment, they would have listened instead to the less violent but the more likely tale, the story of starvation, and headed for Tahiti, just as Melville's sad commentary suggests.
Over a million North Koreans died of
starvation
in that time, and in 2003, when I was 13 years old, my father became one of them.
I could die of
starvation
like my father in North Korea, or at least I could try for a better life by escaping to China.
I felt so suffocated that I had so much food in America, yet my father died of
starvation.
In 1984, in what can only be considered one of the greatest crimes of humanity, nearly one million people died of
starvation
in my country of birth, Ethiopia.
Not six months later, in July 2002, Ethiopia announced a major food crisis, to the same proportions as 1984: 14 million people at risk of
starvation.
Drought drives the small village into poverty and to the brink of
starvation.
Over the course of human history,
starvation
has been a much bigger problem than overeating.
We can call this place in Congo a death camp, because those who are not killed will die of disease or
starvation.
And it is an exquisite form of torture to exhaust yourself to the point of
starvation
day after day while dragging a sledge full of food.
This decline appears too big to be explained by the usual causes of bee death alone: disease, parasites or
starvation.
There, Marie earned both a physics and mathematics degree surviving largely on bread and tea, and sometimes fainting from near
starvation.
From 1970 until today, the percentage of the world's population living in
starvation
levels, living on a dollar a day or less, obviously adjusted for inflation, that percentage has declined by 80 percent.
And with that growth comes a whole list of growing challenges, challenges such as dealing with global warming, solving
starvation
and water shortages and curing diseases, to name just a few.
That was the purpose that he put into the machine, so to speak, and then his food and his drink and his relatives turned to gold and he died in misery and
starvation.
Everywhere, people were dying and being killed, losing their lives from disease, overwork, execution and
starvation.
With each passing year, her contributions become more vital: overfishing and habitat destruction have decimated salmon populations, putting the whales at near-constant risk of
starvation.
On the way back towards the camp, two of the five men succumbed to frostbite starvation, and exhaustion.
The penalty for too little is
starvation
and malnutrition.
And we do not want to relegate the urban poor to
starvation.
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