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Originally posted by stocktrader23
Yes it's very sad. My question is what would happen if all these kids somehow lived? That's a lot of extra mouths to feed down the road. They need to go in and castrate the people producing children in these invironments.
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Hunger is actually generally not a problem of overpopulation, but of poverty.
Surviving insufficient dietary energy intakes requires reducing physical activity, which causes workers in third world countries to be less productive. Many studies have been done proving that supplementary food has a significant positive effect on the productivity of poor workers in developing countries. That's one way hunger has a really big negative effect economic effect.
Another thing hunger does is hinder the development of long term business projects. People who are suffering from hunger simply do not have the opportunity to create the long term projects that are essential to the economy because they are too busy finding something to eat
right now.
Yet another negative effect of hunger on the economy is the way it influences the development in children. Undernutrition impairs physical growth and inhibits mental development in children. On the long term, this robs the economy of healthy workers. Ofcourse, children starving to death does that in an even worse way... the UN estimates that the economic loss in labour caused by children starving to death in the third world adds up to about 16 billion a year. For reference, it is estimated that eradicating world hunger by 2030 would cost $6 billion a year, or slightly over 50 cents per month per person in the western world.
The only way to end hunger is to end poverty, and one of the main factors causing poverty is hunger. "Too many mouths to feed" is not the problem.