Don't these two news items just say everything about how f.....up our society is?
Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall is trying to stop us & the Supermarkets from wasting vast amounts of perfectly edible food. On the other side of the world Ethiopia is again heading for an even worse famine than in 1983 - 85 when more than 400,000 people died.
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/aug/25/un-ethiopia-need-food-aid-after-poor-rains
While we squander precious resources Ethiopia is in the grip of drought which will make 4.5 million people need food aid and be close to starvation.
How do we tolerate this?
We don't actually see it - it's a film on the TV - we are distanced from it. We don't have to look into the eyes of people who literally have nothing. We don't have to watch children die in front of us. It doesn't really touch our lives.
We are not responsible for the drought or the famine, but we are sure as hell responsible for our own wasteful actions in a country of plenty. We are guilty of complacency & think that donating a little money is enough - It isn't.
We have to tackle the root problem of a world of two very different halves - the Have's and the Have Nots. The Have's must give up their wasteful ways & over indulgent choice & be prepared to equably share all the worlds resources. We don't own the land, the food, the water, the natural abundance we are blessed with. We are just custodians. Unless we are prepared to adjust the huge imbalance that rabid consumerism brings & give freely to the developing world there may come a time when they say enough is enough & rise up and take their fair share.
I for one wouldn't blame them.
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