Comments on: BBC: More overweight people across the world than hungry ones http://nuvatsia.terevaden.net/2006/08/16/bbc-more-overweight-people-across-the-world-than-hungry-ones/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:03:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Tere http://nuvatsia.terevaden.net/2006/08/16/bbc-more-overweight-people-across-the-world-than-hungry-ones/#comment-20 Tere Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:13:00 +0000 http://nuvatsia.terevaden.net/?p=51#comment-20 Yes, this must be the case. Redistribution, what a challenging task! Moral philosopher Ted Honderich has some interesting ideas on that in his books. I have Collapse somewhere, should check it out ... Yes, this must be the case. Redistribution, what a challenging task! Moral philosopher Ted Honderich has some interesting ideas on that in his books.

I have Collapse somewhere, should check it out …

]]> By: Matti http://nuvatsia.terevaden.net/2006/08/16/bbc-more-overweight-people-across-the-world-than-hungry-ones/#comment-19 Matti Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:05:00 +0000 http://nuvatsia.terevaden.net/?p=51#comment-19 If you think about hunger in terms of world averages, there's obviously enough food around. And there would be a lot more, if we would switch from beef to cereals. This would probably require a benevolent world government to handle all the redistribution. Obviously hunger can be quite objective problem locally. Check out the chapter "Malthus in Rwanda" in Jared Diamond's new book Collapse. If you think about hunger in terms of world averages, there’s obviously enough food around. And there would be a lot more, if we would switch from beef to cereals. This would probably require a benevolent world government to handle all the redistribution.

Obviously hunger can be quite objective problem locally. Check out the chapter “Malthus in Rwanda” in Jared Diamond’s new book Collapse.

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