>Eva:
> Fact: Every decade since WWII, the number of famine victims have been
> steadily and surely decreasing.
>
> A friend sent me a Swedish "State of the World" report for 1994 ("Laget i
> Varlden 1994"). It gives the following figures for undernourishment in
> *developing countries*:
>
> Population % Number of people
> 1969-71 36 % 941 million
> 1988-90 20 % 781 million
>
> If this isn't a significant and dramatic improvement, it's hard to imagine
> what is.
Hardins First Law of ecology: "We can never do merely one thing."
By reducing famine, we did at least two other important things:
#1 In order to reduce famine, we depleted nonrenewable resources.
Would you be optimistic driving back and forth to the grocery store
on your last tank of gas? Your answer is yes if you live for the
moment, but some of us worry about what will happen when
the tank is empty (see # 2 below).
#2 By reducing deaths, we guranteed that even more people will die of
starvation in the future.
Does this cheer you up Eva?
Jay
