Starving People

Starving People

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7344892.stm
The title at BBC is IMF head gives food price warning


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The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that hundreds of thousands of people will face starvation if food prices keep rising.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn said that social unrest from continuing food price inflation could cause conflict.

There have been food riots recently in a number of countries, including Haiti, the Philippines and Egypt.

Meeting in Washington, the IMF called for strong action on food prices and the international financial crisis.

Market turmoil

Although the problems in global credit markets were the main focus of the meeting of the IMF's steering committee of finance ministers from 24 countries, Mr Strauss-Kahn warned of dire consequences from continued food price rises.

"Thousands, hundreds of thousands of people will be starving. Children will be suffering from malnutrition, with consequences for all their lives," he told reporters.

He said the problem could lead to trade imbalances that may eventually affect developed nations, "so it is not only a humanitarian question". end quote

The importance of all available people on earth taking this seriously cannot be overestimated because historically the major cause for wars tend to be "lack of food, lack of resources and religious wars". Since the first thing listed is food then the first stages of starvation while people are still strong enough to fight could get pretty nasty. At a certain point it will be too late because those starving people will tend to lay down and the world will have to watch them die and live with themselves ever after.