🚀 go-pugleaf

Carl Witthoft wrote:
> 
> In epistle  <73kh7b$q5m@flatland.dimensional.com>, an amazing wordwright
> named telecon@dimensional.com (telecon) may or may not have claimed:
> 
> ->In article <365D5904.FD059FD3@nh.ultranet.com>,
> ->Wizard  <-=Never@Never.com=-> wrote:
> ->:the number of chronically hungry people in the world was rising and that
> ->:the Asian financial crisis could spell even more pain for the poor. The
> ->:Rome-based agency, which in 1996 hosted a World Food Summit that aimed
> ->:to halve the number of hungry people by 2015, said in an annual State of
> ->:Food and Agriculture Report that the number of severely undernourished
> ->:people in developing countries rose to 828 million in 1994-96 from 822
> ->:million in 1990-92.
> ->
> ->Time for a war.  The easiest way to halve the number of hungry people in
> ->the world is to kill them.
> ->
> ->Sad but true.
> 
> Rant part one:  name ANY war that came close to killing even 10% of the
> world's population.  you can't.

It's not the wars that cause themajor population limitations, it's the failed
harvests and famines and pestilences that follow the wars.

Look at Southern Sudan if you want an example.

> 
> Rant part two:  how did this absurd troll erupt into over 75 messages in
> only a couple days?   Haven't you all learned to ignore the nonsense
> posted by "Wizard" ?
> --
> Carl Witthoft  cgw@world.std.com  carl@aoainc.com  http://world.std.com/~cgw
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