African food shortage!

[ilovemarkb]

Just interested in peoples thoughts about the above. My other half believes we are making things worse by sending food supplys and interfering with nature. By sending them food he believes that they will multiply even more and the problem will worsen! He blames Bob gelddof.

[youngmafbog]

Your answer came over in a high handed 'Look at me I can pick holes in peoples posts so I must be better than you' A number of posters on this site seem to think that pointing out spellin/gramma will somehow make them look intelligent. It doesn't, it makes you look a prat.
Have you considered that maybe not everyone has a lot of time, or if using a mobile as there is no proper app it is difficult as you cant see what you type? No, I don't suppose you have.

As for the post, I agree with your husband. I would happily support contraception and education but not feeding those Nature is trying to tell us are surplus. Might seem hard but with the population approaching 7Bn we cannot afford such luxuries.

[hc4361]

You think I'm high handed and consider myself superior, but it is YOU that wants to let people starve to death just because of where they are born, youngmafbog.

[ilovemarkb]

thankyou Youngmafbog for the support!! As I am currently in my second year at university and doing extremely well with all my assignments then I am not phased by his unkind remarks. Guess I am going to get a lot worse from patients in the future. I am a tough cookie!! On reflection I guess I was procrastinating away from my three 4000 word assignments that are all due in on Sep 10th !!

[hc4361]

You didn't bother to read my 2nd post in this thread, then, where I said I will not apologise because I wasn't referring to you, ilovemarkb.

[cathfromsaron]

i agree that in the long term they should grow their own foods and be self sufficient, hence many organisations already sending seeds and resources etc, BUT starving people are a human emergency!

is he this bigoted against all black people one wonders?

cath x

[hc4361]

cath, that's the problem. In many parts the soil is so thin the top layer blows away in a storm, leaving no crop - a dust bowl.
Or there is not enough water to irrigate and the sun is too hot. Crops can shrivel literally within hours.
Or the rains come - and washes everything away.

Too easy to say communities should move. It is something I feel very strongly about, and there is no easy answer.