Maybe stop having the CIA kill left wing revolutionary movements and stop sanctioning and doing everything possible to sabotage successful ones?
Like 90% of all food insecurity lies at the feet of western imperialism and extractive and coercive trade agreements.
Guessing that isn’t the answer the stenographers of empire over at MSN are looking for.
Science will give us new means to solve problems, but not the desire to solve them, which is what we are ultimately lacking.
No we are not lacking in desire to solve these problems, they are baked into the capitalist mode of production. This is excruciatingly white/western chauvinist perspective.
These modes of exploitation are dependent on incredible violence to repress the billions of people that desire to overturn the capitalist order in favor of something more humane.
If you envision human action as a composition of capability, interest and rationality, the latter being how consistently you use capability to accomplish goals aligned with your interests, maybe it could be a fault in the rationality itself. Would you agree with that? The idea that we have the means to solve a problem and assuming the intention to do so as well, but that humans collectively do not know how to apply knowledge correctly to achieve our interests in such political problems.
How do you reconcile that with the fact that before the slave trade and colonialism, famine and malnourishment in Africa were comparatively rare? Why, despite the increase in technology and food production capability do these problems exist now when they didn’t then?
Don't peek at the answer before you've tried to solve it yourself
Seriously, just google Jason Hickel first, the work's been done
It’s because the departing colonial powers stuck Africa with a bunch of debt and export-oriented modes of production, which means that food and goods that could provide a sustainable existence for Africans is being taken off the continent at fire sale prices, leaving them without the funds to adequately supplement at global prices.
