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Uncle Joe

(58,300 posts) Thu Sep 8, 2022, 10:48 AM Sep 2022

Famine by October? Somalia & East Africa Face Humanitarian Crisis Amid Climate Change, Ukraine War

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Famine by October? Somalia & East Africa Face Humanitarian Crisis Amid Climate Change, Ukraine War (Original Post) Uncle Joe Sep 2022 OP

Not to be glib, but it seems like they are perpetually in a state of famine? LymphocyteLover Sep 2022 #1

Many reasons but they're living on an expanding edge and Uncle Joe Sep 2022 #2

stop making babies! pfitz59 Sep 2022 #3

LymphocyteLover

(5,638 posts)

1. Not to be glib, but it seems like they are perpetually in a state of famine?

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Thu Sep 8, 2022, 01:05 PM

Sep 2022

But maybe this one is much worse.

Uncle Joe

(58,300 posts)

2. Many reasons but they're living on an expanding edge and

Reply to LymphocyteLover (Reply #1)

Thu Sep 8, 2022, 01:13 PM

Sep 2022

the edge is becoming ever more hostile due to global warming climate change, not to mention the other inherited headwinds they face.

pfitz59

(10,310 posts)

3. stop making babies!

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Thu Sep 8, 2022, 06:23 PM

Sep 2022

The US Congress refuses to fund family planning efforts around the globe. The youngest victims of famine are always the 'starving babies', too many of them.

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