In destroying the false lines of Charles Darwin and Malthusian postulates on population and means of subsistence, Alan and Ted wrote: The widespread hunger in the so-called Third World is not the product of natural selection, but very definitely a man made problem. Not the survival of the fittest, but greed for profits of a handful of big banks and monopolies is what condemns millions to a life of desperate poverty and actual starvation. Just to pay back the interest on their accumulated debts, the poorest countries are compelled to grow cash crops for export, including rice, cocoa and other food, which could be used to feed their own people. In 1989, Sudan was still exporting food, while its people starved to death. In Brazil, it is estimated that about 400,000 children die of hunger every year. Yet Brazil is one of the biggest exporters of food. The same discredited ideas continue to re-surface from time to time, as an attempt is made to blame the nightmare conditions of the Third World on the fact that there are too many people (meaning black, yellow and brown people). The fact that, in the absence of pensions, poor peasants need to have as many children as possible (especially sons) to keep them in old age, is conveniently ignored. Poverty and ignorance causes the so called population problem. As living standards and education increase, the growth in population tends to fall automatically. Meanwhile, the potential for increased food production is immense, and is being held down artificially in order to boost the profits of a few wealthy farmers in Europe, Japan and the USA. The scandal of mass starvation in the late 20th century is even more repugnant because it is unnecessary. And someone tries to tell me that Marx is gone?! I look everywhere, the idea speaks in volume.
Posted on: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 17:44:15 +0000