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Living in modern cities, residents of the “civilized” West sometimes they don’t even realize how many people in the world suffer from food shortages, simply – starving.
The figure of 815 million starving is literally amazing. It turns out that every ninth inhabitant of the planet is not only full, even can not eat normally. And among these hungry people all more affected are children who more often than adults die from lack of nutrition and complete exhaustion.
FAO estimates (Food and Agriculture UN), the most starving in Asia – 520 million, then comes Africa – 243 million, 42 million starving to Latin America and the Caribbean. And these are indicators only last year, this year, especially in connection with more frequent natural disasters and wars, they will assume much higher. However, they are already year after year are becoming more intimidating, although recent events in the world are not bode well in this regard. If that goes on, researchers say that by 2030, humanity will face the real problem of world famine.
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And this is at a time when in our civilized world 640 millions of people are obese and dumped in landfills almost 30 percent of food. Not to mention that the leading countries of the world spend on weapons (to destroy themselves like) trillions of dollars – funds that would be enough, to create a true paradise on Earth, wherever everyone is fed, shod and had a roof over his head.
It is striking in this situation that a simple layman can condemn war, violence, theft of politicians, their inattention to those starving, and at the same time at the household level tyranny of their neighbors, lie and withhold money from them, mock animals, litter plastic nature and do a bunch of unseemly things even not realizing that in this case he does nothing better than the most cruel and indifferent dictator.
And after all this, people wonder why the aliens are not Want to get in touch with us? ..