Thursday, January 22, 2009

I was reading my environmental science book again, and I have come an astounding conclussion.

This generation is completely ridiculous.

People eat so little food in some parts of the world that 690 people die every hour from undernutrition and malnutrition. Other people eat so much food that 1.2 billions face health problems from eating too much. One in four people is overweight. One in twenty is obese.

so while 1 billion people have health problems because they do not get enough to eat, another 1.2 billion have health problems because they get too much to eat.

We (the earth) produce more than enough food to meet the basic nutritional needs of every person on the earth. Even with this surplus, one in every six people in developing countries is not getting enough to eat.

The root cause of hunger and malnutrition is poverty.
each year 6 millions children die prematurely from undernutrition and malnutrition because of their weak condition.
This means, each day 16,400 children die prematurely from these causes related to poverty.

(data from Living in the Environment 15th Edition by G. Tyler Miller, Jr.)

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