From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Mon Jun 24 2002 - 08:40:34 MDT
"Robert J. Bradbury" wrote:
>
> Meager Harvests in Africa Leave Millions at the Edge of Starvation
> RACHEL L. SWARNS
> New York Times, June 23, 2002
> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/23/international/africa/23HUNG.html?pagewanted=print
>
> It makes me want to cry when you realize that a 100W human
> being could be powered by the solar energy falling on a few
> square meters of land. All we lack is the technology to
> efficiently translate that energy into a useful resource for
> humans (or conversely the technology to translate humans into
> entities that can effectively use that resource -- probably a
> bit harder from a technological viewpoint).
What really makes me cry is the fact that the starvation is the fault of
despots like Mugabe and his left wing sympathizers in the west, and not
a lack of farmland, rain, or anything else. People are dying while
Samantha and Olga, et al continue to make excuses with deflections,
denials, etc. Of course, their ilk did the same thing 40-60 years ago in
another part of the world.
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