Dream On
"If we are going to stop wars on this Earth, we are going to have to make war on hunger our number one priority."How prescient was Mr. Brooks ?~ David W. Brooks, circa 1980, a member of the U.S. Presidential Commission on World Hunger, established September, 1978.
Not very. While there have been a few conflicts since 1980 that were motivated by lack of food, or that used hunger as a weapon, (such as in Ethiopia during the 80s), a full generation after Mr. Brooks made his remark it's clear that lack of food is not a large initial motivating factor in international conflict, or civil wars.
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In today's world famines are politically motivated.
Was it ever?
Japan thought it had to expand in the '30s because it was 'overpopulated,' and Hitler demanded 'lebensraum,' but though underfed their populations were not starving.
Bread riots did not ususally lead to wars.
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