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World hunger: Causes and effects

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Einstein said that we could solve any problem if we can define the problem right. So the best way to solve the problem of Death by Starvation in the world is to define what causes that problem and then find solutions to that. So here are the causes for death by starvation:

Corrupt leaders and their corrupt associates in the world who hold the global resources to themselves without letting the population have even the minimum that is needed to live.


Absence of benevolent leadership who can empathize with the pain of starvation.
Egotistic leadership and their egotistic associates, although basically good people yet too arrogant to listen to anyone with any sense and empathy.
Indifference of the general population who are also basically good people but too busy to think of the starving children etc. thus go on with their daily survival like sheep.
The brainwashed population, who although not sharing the wealth and power with the corrupt and egotistic leadership and their associates as above but still embrace the survival of the fittest political strategy those people advocate as if being brainwashed. Some of these people have stopped thinking but embrace anything that is put to their minds without any question.

If we can get rid of corruption we can eliminate starvation because there is enough food and water on earth for all the habitants. It is the corrupt leaders that won't allow foreign aid from going into finding solution to poverty, but divert those to their personal benefit.

Imagine what would have happened if Europe, Japan and the rest of the nations had corrupt leaders in place as the USA was giving them massive financial aid through the Marshall Plan. All we could have gotten were a bunch of criminals with money in foreign banks as opposed to the wealthy countries that we can trade with as it is now. Europe, Japan and the other recipients of the Marshall plan fortunately had statesmen who cared about the nation and not personal gain and thus we have managed to build an association of great nations. Take country by country throughout history and you will see that it is the people led by a benevolent leader that has made that country wealthy. If the people were smart the country would be rich and vice versa. Well there are exceptions some times, even when the people are smart if the country is taken over by a ruthless, greedy dictator that one man could turn the whole country into a place with desperate starving people.

It is the greed aided by corruption that


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