Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cepu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrba!cepu!scw From: scw@cepu.UUCP (Stephen C. Woods) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: poor starving people Message-ID: <416@cepu.UUCP> Date: Mon, 26-Nov-84 16:39:07 EST Article-I.D.: cepu.416 Posted: Mon Nov 26 16:39:07 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 29-Nov-84 03:42:13 EST References: <642@amd.UUCP> Reply-To: scw@cepu.UUCP (Stephen C. Woods) Distribution: net Organization: VA Wadsworth Med. Center; LA CA Lines: 28 Summary: In article <642@amd.UUCP> phil@amd.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes: >I feel like starting a flame here. Sorry, you'll not get one here. > >BACKGROUND >Many people are starving in Ethiopia. Many countries are giving food aid >and this cause has made even the USA [...] farmers not to produce to keep >prices up. > >But that's not what I want to [...] too many people living in Ethiopia. >I think there probably isn't any birth control there. > >PROPOSAL >The United States should send more food to Ethiopia, but all recipients >must consent to sterilization. The problem is not that there are too many people in Ethiopa (for normal times), The problem is that Northern sub-Sahra Africa is in the throws of what may be the WORST drought in recorded times (I believe that they are now starting on the 9th year). This drought is caused in part by a mild climate shift (much like the fabled 'El Nino'but of longer duration) and in part by deforestation in central Africa. -- Stephen C. Woods (VA Wadsworth Med Ctr./UCLA Dept. of Neurology) uucp: { {ihnp4, uiucdcs}!bradley, hao, trwrb}!cepu!scw ARPA: cepu!scw@ucla-cs location: N 34 3' 9.1" W 118 27' 4.3"