The recessions has caused many of us to scale back our lives by limiting our luxuries, which often means forgoing vacations and other luxuries. Tightening our belts has been hard, but it’s a lot harder when you’re doing it to keep hunger at bay. Turns out, we don’t know what hard is. For nations with populations that have been starving since before the global financial crisis, waiting for the ‘end of the recession’ doesn’t mean much.
In such times of crisis, wealthy nations reduce the amount of contribution toward charitable aid. Simultaneously, the economic woes of the nations most in need escalate, leading us to the current point at which more than one billion earthlings are starving. That means that one in every six people can’t eat when they feel hungry. Money that used to be donated toward helping close this gap is now being put toward internal problems in the donor countries: bank bailouts, military spending, and measures against further damaging the economy, among other things.
Based on the current trend, the number of those starving will increase. There’s no solution here, nor is there a witty comment to be made that will make us reflect on our lifestyles relative to those who are truly suffering. It might simply get worse.
