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lstahl@efn.org (C. Larry Stahl) wrote:
>
>"To eliminate starvation as a cause of death" must, of course, begin with
>a certain philosophical position -- based on a certain principle -- to
>become truly effective.

I think it also begins with a scientific position: the we have the
means to accomplish this result, have for some time.  That makes
the current agony neither an 'act of nature' nor an 'act of God
or gods', meaning willful inaction is starting to supply historians
with new ways of looking back on our time e.g.:

  When blimp photographs are taken of giant stadia packed 
  full of rock-concert or football fans, we get an idea of 
  what 100,000 people look like. We all think of Hiroshima 
  as the worst single killing of humans by humans. That was 
  about a 75,000-capacity-coliseum-full. Each day of each 
  year, year after year, a 75,000-capacity-stadium-full of 
  around-the-world humans perish from starvation or its side 
  effects, despite an annual average 5-percent world food-
  production overage of the amount of food adequate for the 
  total world's population. This daily kill of innocents 
  dwarfs the awful Auschwitz killing.

            'Grunch of Giants' by R. Buckminster Fuller
             1983 St. Martin's Press (RBF awarded the 
             Medal of Freedom by USA prez RR around this
             same time)

Which is where some of the philosophical positioning enters in.

Kirby

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