Starvation Situations

Starvation is not a social justice issue that is unknown or comes at us from unawares. It is something that we should and can predict, and it is something that we desperately need to predict. There are several starvation situations that we can identify beforehand, prepare for beforehand, and hopefully weather during it.

Drought. When many African countries do not have rain for long stretches of time, this becomes a massive problem. Drought kills the ability for people to raise crops, feed their livestock, have clean or unclean water, and be able to make a living. Whether the drought ruins the ability for people to earn money or inhibits the ability for people to raise food - it simply is a life-stopper. It stops people from eating. It stops people from buying and selling. It just stops people. But we should be able to identify where droughts will happen. With all of the meteorology abilities that we have - we should be able to identify the area where a drought will happen. In order to help these people, we need to identify where droughts are most likely to happen.

Natural Disasters. Our meteorology abilities should be able to help us better prepare for natural disasters, as well. We live in an age with too much innovation, technology, and effectiveness to keep having these natural disasters surprise developing countries and devostate their people. So many people starve to death in all of the rucus from natural disasters. We can better help them if we can better prepare beforehand for these disasters. These are things that we have to identify before they happen so that we can adequately prepare for the people to survive these disasters.

Violence, War, Etc. Many people die from starvation when their lives are torn apart by violence and war. These are also things that we can identify with some warning so that we can prepare to help people. When wars and violence break out, we can see the warning signs beforehand. We can identify these dangerous situations so that we can prepare to sustain through them.


Starvation happens when people who are hanging onto life by a single thread have something catastrophic happen to break that string. Drought, natural disasters, wars and violence - these are the things that disrupt people's lives so much that there is no more room left for error. We have to identify these situations beforehand so that we can better prepare to help these struggling individuals.


We have the ability. Now we have to have the mindset. No more starvation.