| HappySqurriel said: I suspect that it doesn't get talked about because no one has a sound byte solution to it, and the problem doesn't provide a political advantage for anyone. Realistically, many people in the western world don't care because they won't feel the hunger pains themself and the consequences of having hundreds of millions of starving people are not obviously appearant. People don't necessarily consider the health (starving people are far more likely to carry diseases which can mutate and threaten everyone) and geopolitical consequences (starving people will follow ANYONE who promises food) from having a large population of starving people. |
I dunno. At worst McCain could use it to attack Barak Obama's energy policy which calls for greatly encreased ethanol. I mean considering all the attack adds, most of which misleading... it'd be nice if he could use a factual hard hitting one.
I mean, his plans to raise ethanol, set over starving people, followed by the UN experts calling biofuel use criminal.... tied in with ethanol lobbies being biggest in Illnois.
I guess the "nobody caring" part is a point though. Attack ads don't work if nobody cares about what they are attacking on.
I was really hoping something would get Obama to change his stance on this though. There are other forms of fuel that could be used in the short term to get off foreign oil then ones that cause people to starve.
