Starvation
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There, it would abruptly cool and darken the planet, slashing rainfall and food production in successive years – and thus causing worldwide
starvation
on a scale never before witnessed.
Marine debris causes the death by drowning, suffocation, or
starvation
of some one million seabirds and around 100,000 marine mammals (seals, whales, and dolphins) every year, not to mention the hazard posed to shipping by sea junk.
Instead of mass starvation, we seem to be awash in food.
There are ups and downs from year to year because of the weather, and there are pockets of
starvation
around the world (due not to a global lack of food, but to a lack of ways to transport it where it’s needed).
If you like the idea of avoiding mass
starvation
– and I certainly do – you owe thanks to two groups of scientists: one that gave us the Green Revolution back around the 1980’s via strains of hardy, high-yielding grains, and another that figured out how to make bread out of air .
It ranks among the great ironies of history that these two brilliant men, credited with saving millions from starvation, are also infamous for other work done later: Haber, a German Jew, was a central force in developing poison gas in World War I (and also performed research that led to the Zyklon B poison gas later used in concentration camps);Bosch, an ardent anti-Nazi, founded the giant chemical company I.G.
Even with a world population that continues to add tens of millions of new mouths every year, given continuing growth in Haber-Bosch fertilizer and a surprising trend toward a worldwide decline in birth rates (if you live about 50 years longer, according to the best estimates, you’ll see humanity reach zero population growth), it might be within humanity’s grasp to avoid mass
starvation
forever.
The goal of squeezing as much money as possible out of time makes a great deal of sense in poor countries, where inefficient use of time can lead to
starvation.
It offers no discussion of the lethal policies since 1949 that led to the persecution and
starvation
of tens of millions of Chinese.
Millions more died of
starvation
in Ukraine as a result of his policies.
In China, Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward is estimated to have killed 36 million people, many of them by
starvation.
But the impact of his misrule is such that Venezuelans are dying from starvation, the health-care system has collapsed, and violence and contagious diseases are now practically out of control.
While this sounds like political fiction in a world where children still die from starvation, reprogenetics sounded like science fiction only thirty years ago.
Meanwhile, a food shortage has left 24 million North Koreans suffering from starvation, and more than 25 of every 1,000 infants die each year, compared to four in South Korea.
Every attempt to counter the regime’s brutality was met with repression, imprisonment, starvation, and forced exile.
Millions die each year, either of outright
starvation
or from infectious diseases that their weakened bodies cannot withstand.
Poverty and
starvation
still pushed migrants off the land in poor countries; now, however, the pull factor was not free land, but better jobs in developed countries.
Those criteria must include the parties’ willingness to allow humanitarian aid to flow to all Syrian civilians under their control and an end to war crimes and crimes against humanity, including systematic targeting of medical personnel,
starvation
of populations under siege, and executions of war prisoners.
Atop North Korea’s
starvation
economy sits a personality cult that dwarfs those of Stalin or Mao.
Instead, with the economy, particularly food production, continuing to falter, perhaps one-third of the country is living at or below
starvation
levels.
Nomads have been victims of famine, violent conflict, and circumstance, accounting for a significant share of the deaths – as many as one million – caused by 22 years of civil war, and of the 260,000 Somalis who died of
starvation
in 2010-2012.
This year also marks the 50th anniversary of the Great Leap Forward, when 20-40 million Chinese died of starvation, as well as the tenth anniversary of the government’s ban on Falun gong, an organization of self-claimed religious and meditation practitioners that has challenged the Communist Party’s legitimacy.
SEATTLE – The recent pledge of $350 million by African leaders and the international community to help the more than 13 million people facing
starvation
in the Horn of Africa underscores the need for continued attention and funding to prevent this tragedy from claiming and scarring even more lives.
Close to 38 million people died of
starvation
and overwork during the infamous Great Leap Forward (1958-61) to catch up with the West.
We now know, after 20 years of discussion of Soviet documents, that in 1932 Stalin knowingly transformed the collectivization famine in Ukraine into a deliberate campaign of politically motivated
starvation.
Harsh reforms have followed this
starvation
diet.
Its people are dying from starvation, from preventable and curable diseases (at much higher rates than the Latin American average), and from violence – including, in some cases, gunshot wounds inflicted by their own government.
How many lives can we spare from heat, starvation, or malaria?
With Stalin’s backing, Lysenko – whose spurious agricultural research doomed perhaps millions of people to
starvation
– sent Soviet biology down a two-decade-long rabbit hole of lunacy.
But there are many challenges, from lack of healthcare to
starvation
and pollution, that also hurt the poor but that we can address more effectively.
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