The Pros And Cons Of World Hunger

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If ending world hunger is possible, why hasn’t it been done? The answer to this question has been attempted for decades. Yet, no one truly knows the solution. Scott Kilman, Roger Thurow and Paul Turner decided to search for the answer and teach the world their findings.

Roger Thurow was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal for 30 years, 20 of them as a foreign correspondent. For the 2 decades that he was based in Africa and Europe, he covered stories about the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the release of Nelson Mandela, the Olympic games, and numerous other important events. His associate, Scott Kilman, was the Journal‘s leading agriculture reporter for 2 in a half decades. In 2003, Thurow and Journal colleague Kilman …show more content…

The script of the book Enough by Roger Thurow and Scott Kilman has some rather emotional stories, yet they all happened before the date of 2009. Many things regarding global hunger have been altered since then. The same situation applies to the article our our human responsibility- practical solutions to World Hunger, written by Paul Turner. Although the information was rather helpful, it was all documented in 2012. This means it doesn’t contain the current information but instead data from 4 years ago. Either way, the information led the author to see why global hunger exists in a world of …show more content…

The solution, clearly, is to reengineer ourselves so that we don’t have to eat and instead draw energy directly from the sun. That shouldn’t be hard at all! But just in case we hit some snags, we should have a backup solution ready.” Something simple, like eliminating poverty. Hunger is not due to a shortage of food since globally there is enough to go around. If we were to distribute 1% of our food supply to all the malnourished people in this world, the problem would be fixed. Therefore, if ending world hunger is possible, why hasn’t it been done? The simple answer is that our world is too selfish to care for others. Through human waste, obesity, poverty, population growth, and climate change, our society has failed to aid almost 795 million malnourished

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