Global Hunger

We are inundated with stories and warnings about global warming and everyone blames the output of carbon into the atmosphere but rarely do we hear that overpopulation is the chief cause of it. The more people there are the less forests we have and the less trees to reduce carbon in the atmosphere.

In countries where education is sparse or non existent the population is mainly out of control. In most of these societies religious dogma rules their day and that involves ignoring family planning and having more children. It also involves very poor or non existent wages and poverty in the extreme. In places like certain Arab nations, as an example, the population is totally unsustainable and people are fleeing. They simply have no space and they look to the west for a better life and will take enormous risks to get there.

The countries they leave are devoid of large scale agriculture, desertification is on the increase, and many families comprise five or more children. Many are involved in sending these kids overseas with smugglers in the hope of getting to a new country. But they take their ignorance with them and continue in the same thinking when the new place of abode does nothing to dissuade their breeding. In fact, the opposite is usually true.

Last night I watched a documentary on conditions in Somalia. This is a country where westerners do have some input but very little help is ever offered.

Because the population is so large, poor and uneducated dictaors rule. They torture, rape, murder, and devastate populations of people just to get rid of them. They treat humans worse than animals. The slave trade is rife and to make matters worse it has just had a horrendous drought so many have no food.

Familes have fled across the border into Kenya and one woman was seen sitting under a few rags stretched over poles for protection from the heat. The area was devoid of just about everything that would be found in a normal home. No furniture, no cooking utensils, virtually nothing. She constantly wiped her brow with the material she wore. There were no sign of children.

As she told her story tears came to my eyes. Several of her children were taken by the soldiers before she fled and she saw one ripped apart and eaten by a hyena. She sits alone because she now has nothing. Such stories are frequent among illegal migrants who flee persecution, starvation and horror like we cannot imagine.