ZL, you really need to pay attention to that part of the world some more.
How about actually funding help actions to take a more active roll in preventing diseases and supplying equipment and education to local farmers?
we tried, the warlords stole the equipment. so all that was left was some farmers who were half educated in the use of nice equipment but had none of it.
I think no one in the world has to starve
me too. Its just that america has huge amounts of excess food being farmed, and whenever we try sending it over, guess what, the warlord/chieften/local oppressor takes it and hands it out to his buds. leaving everybody else to starve
we have the resources to supply more than enough food for everyone on the planet, it's just a matter of what we're willing to give up.
yep, your right, america does. but somebody had to put into effect subsidised farming. that means the goverment pays the farmers a small amount to burnall the excess stuff grown. even I thinkit would be better to just air drop the lot of it into the starving countries. maybe then the warlords would see that 'oh, theres so much food here we really don't need to hoard it.'
the only problem with that is the entire place would become a welfare state.
Those countries which are saveable on the other hand, dump all the money you want into it, because there save able.
And ZL, most of the expense that goes into space research comes out as commercial product's or product enhancements that we can use, and that the goverment can tax. and the real drain on resoruces is the old tech that we have to keep retro fitting.
Look at Burt Rutan and his X-prize winning SpaceShipOne. that thing made it to space and back twice in two weeks using only rubber and NOs. and it wasn't goverment funded in the least bit. That is space exploration technology advancement