Summary: This article talks about how the United Nationals has declared a famine in an area of South Sudan, and how parts of of northern Nigeria, Somalia, and Yemen could also be at risk. Most of these countries are experiencing fdroyfht and or war issues, making famine a very prominent issue. This article touches on the fact that the world we live in has such an excess of food, that there's no excuse forever one person to be dying of starvation, much less whole regions of people and children.
Analysis/Synthesis: This makes me really sad, because every day I watch people at our own school throw away entire lunches from the cafeteria and I think about children in other parts of the world that would kill for even a fraction of that food. Idk. It just hurts my heart a little to know that we're all so privileged yet we're wasteful and ungrateful while so many others are dying. I connected this to Somalia's last famine back in 2011.
Link to the article: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/02/22/world/africa/why-20-million-people-are-on-brink-of-famine-in-a-world-of-plenty.html?referer=https://www.google.com/
People have been seeing pictures and articles like this for years, but nothing has changed. Until people actually meet an emaciated child, its not quite real in their minds. Most people have never experienced true hunger before, which makes it hard for them to be empathetic about the situation.
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