Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!aidas From: aidas@castle.ed.ac.uk (David A. Sinclair) Newsgroups: alt.activism Subject: Re: Akwesasne Notes -- Basic Call to Consciousness 1977 Message-ID: <1671@castle.ed.ac.uk> Date: 17 Jan 90 13:16:57 GMT References: <3096@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU> <1257@milton.acs.washington.edu> <503@smcnet.UUCP> <4602@druwy.ATT.COM> <1963@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca> <10282@microsoft.UUCP> Reply-To: aidas@castle.ed.ac.uk (David A. Sinclair) Organization: Edinburgh University Computing Service Lines: 19 In article nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu writes: > In article nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu writes: > >And greed has also produced all of the world's misery. > > Ah. Perhaps, then, you could explain how greed causes disease and drought > ... Case in point. The myth that you're following is that drought causes famine in itself. The truth is that the world has enough resources and that the rich countries are consuming far too much of them. All major famines are normally blamed on 'acts of god' when in fact, the USA and europe store massive stocks of grain and even in the countries that experience famine there is enough land, or enough grain to feed the people. The 1984 Ethiopian famine was blamed on drought when in fact the government controlled half of the country had plenty of food and was even using it's land to export tobacco. -to quote Bertold Brecht "Famines do not occur, they are organised by the grain trade".