Word: hungers
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Girdling the world at its equatorial bulge is a belt of hunger. Above it live the 1.4 billion inhabitants of the northern developed nations whose advanced industry and agriculture permit them the luxury of worrying about reducing diets instead of diet deficiencies. Below it are the potentially prosperous lands of the Southern Hemisphere's temperate zone. Along the belt live many of the 2.5 billion citizens of the underdeveloped world, nearly all of them ill-fed: at least 60% are malnourished, and 20% more are starving...
Today, famine is rampant in Ethiopia, the African nations of the Sahel (Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal and Upper Volta), Gambia and in areas of Tanzania and Kenya. Near famine also plagues Bolivia, Syria, Yemen and Nigeria. One poor harvest could bring massive hunger to India, the Sudan, Guyana, Somalia, Guinea and Zaire. In two dozen other nations, the populace faces chronic food shortages. Among them: Bangladesh, Iran, Indonesia, the Philippines and Haiti...
...amounting to a mere 27 days of consumption. "We're just keeping our heads above water," observes FAO Official John Mollett. "But the margin of safety is decreasing. One big crop failure anywhere and it could be every country for itself." For most countries in the hunger belt, that could mean mass starvation...
Increased productivity is relatively meaningless if it is accompanied by the population boosts so characteristic of history's past technical breakthroughs. Without population control, more food only means more people, more hunger-and more problems all around...
Most of the pilgrims share a vague spiritual hunger. "What struck me most here was the experience of finding so many people of my own age who were searching," explained Magdalene, 21, a Norwegian at the camp. Alois, a 19-year-old German, suggested that "it's not even Christianity we're searching for, since many of us are not believers. What we all share is a search for meaning." Stefano, a 15-year-old from Milan on his third visit to Taizé, said that "we all push to love God." Taizé's pilgrims...