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Erratic weather patterns in southern Africa have devastated harvest prospects for millions of people and could spell yet another year of widespread food shortages

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espse
March 13, 2007, 10:33 a.m.
Aside from the implications of climate change, I'm sick of hearing about famine in Africa. If we feed them, they repoduce like rabbits, can't politically manage agriculture, and colapse into warlord politics with massive refugees starving again. There is no solution. Let nature control the population.
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Dionys
March 13, 2007, 12:17 p.m.
Africa is our problem, but unfortunately with Bush in office, all we're going to have is more people dying of AIDS, more US supported warlords and more starvation.
As for letting them starve / letting "nature control the population," I guess there really is no such thing as a compassionate conservative, huh.
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Bobcat6
March 13, 2007, 1:01 p.m.
Does anything good ever happen in Africa? Is there any African country that isn't ruled by a psychotic genocidal maniac? Is there any part of Africa that doesn't have an AIDS problem? Can the African people ever do anything to make life in their countries better? If these problems continue then all of Africa will be nothing but a jungle w/nothing but wildlife and humans as the extinct species.
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PINTO
March 13, 2007, 2:13 p.m.
Why is Africa "our problem". Why is it our job to feed, clothe, struture and support an entire continent? For thousands of years people have supported themselves. They migrated, or became nomads or did something to support themselves OR THEY WOULD DIE. And if they died, it was ok because it wasnt an "evil" thing that the do gooders had to go vanquesh. It was nature, it was a natural course of life. Just because they dont have Ipods and 2 story houses doesnt mean we have support them.
Worry about our own country. Worry about feeding our children, our friends, our families. If you hae extra money you want to give away, thats great, I applaud you, your selflessness is admirable. But it is not "our job" to do so and no one should be scolded or guilted into doing so, not individually and not as a country.
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Locky12
March 13, 2007, 2:18 p.m.
Famine? In Africa? Shocker.
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jumpmaster
March 13, 2007, 3:15 p.m.
Why don't we let France or Germany carry the heavy water on this one? After all, the US stinks at foreign policy.
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droid3913
March 13, 2007, 5:07 p.m.
This is one of Nature's cure for population control. Have you ever heard of the "Life boat theory"? I learned about it in high school Biologoy. Think of the Titanic. When it was sinking. There wasn't enough life boats to save everyone. They had to pick and choosed who lived and who died. Of course, they choose woman and children first. I know this sounds horrible to most people, but it's a fact of life. Nature does it all the time.
When I was in the Army, I was in Africa. Sorry to say, we must let that contient go. The main reason are the governments over there. Do you know most of them holds the US and UN's food and feeds their Armies with it? Almost none of it goes to the people. Your food and money goes to the dicators of the African countries.
Africa is one area on the planet which needs to sink. It's sad but it's true.
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nostalgia
March 13, 2007, 6:15 p.m.
If you want a very interesting perspective on the problems in Africa, read Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux
He joined the Peace Corps and was in Africa from 1963 to 1965. 40 years later he returned to Africa and traveled overland from Cairo to Cape Town visiting the places where he worked while in the Peace Corps. The book is a tale of his journey.
"Africa is materially more decrepit than it was when I first knew it," he writes, "hungrier, poorer, less educated, more pessimistic, more corrupt, and you can't tell the politicians from the witch doctors."
He makes some interesting points about why foreign aid has failed and why conditions are worse
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KrazyKapt
March 13, 2007, 7:21 p.m.
Maybe when they start finding sane leaders over there somthing can be done,Untill then let's just stay away.