Coronavirus leads to mass hunger, killing 10,000 children a month, UN warns

I'm not surprised. A lot of liberals and progressives were seeing the silver lining when it came to Covid and the shutdowns where there was less pollution, wild animals were actually reappearing in certain places and they were touting the shut downs as being good for "Climate Change". But it's been a known fact that many things that are good for the environment are bad for the 3rd world, like putting restrictions on fossil fuels for heating, cooking and electricity etc. And in the past, there was talk in regards to things like the OP in regards to gasohol using up food for fuel, making it more expensive etc. This is beyond the point, that was already known that gasahol was not effective as far as saving energy, it actually cost more energy to make it than what it saves (If not for federal regulations, subsidies or whatever incentivizes its production it wouldn't exist).

Original Happy Camper said:

Coronavirus leads to mass hunger, killing 10,000 children a month, UN warns

The coronavirus and restrictions that have coincided with the pandemic are pushing millions around the globe to the brink of starvation.

Coronavirus-related starvation is leading to the death of 10,000 children a month, 50 percent of which are in Sub-Sahara Africa, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). An additional 550,000 children a month area experiencing “wasting,” a term used by the U.N. to explain malnutrition that leads to spindly limbs and distended stomachs.

The long-term consequences of mass-malnutrition could lead to generations of physically and mentally impaired people.


COVID-19 drove an additional 97 million people into extreme poverty in 2020, according to World Bank estimates. More than a year into the pandemic, the World Bank stresses that “there is still much we don’t know” concerning its impact on global poverty in 2021.

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And here's America...fining farmers for not destroying their crops.

spiritfilledjm said:

And here's America...fining farmers for not destroying their crops.

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Yup. Maranatha

Original Happy Camper said:

Coronavirus leads to mass hunger, killing 10,000 children a month, UN warns

The coronavirus and restrictions that have coincided with the pandemic are pushing millions around the globe to the brink of starvation.

Coronavirus-related starvation is leading to the death of 10,000 children a month, 50 percent of which are in Sub-Sahara Africa, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). An additional 550,000 children a month area experiencing “wasting,” a term used by the U.N. to explain malnutrition that leads to spindly limbs and distended stomachs.

The long-term consequences of mass-malnutrition could lead to generations of physically and mentally impaired people.


COVID-19 drove an additional 97 million people into extreme poverty in 2020, according to World Bank estimates. More than a year into the pandemic, the World Bank stresses that “there is still much we don’t know” concerning its impact on global poverty in 2021.

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The corona virus is not the root cause but a contributing factor. The governments and the wealthy of the world see more mouths to feed as less for them or G-d's will.
In LOve
Jay Sea

Pavel Mosko said:

This is beyond the point, that was already known that gasahol was not effective as far as saving energy, it actually cost more energy to make it than what it saves (If not for federal regulations, subsidies or whatever incentivizes its production it wouldn't exist).

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I worked as a chemical engineer for an ethanol plant design firm in 1999. A lot of what was used was waste being converted into usable products. For example, McDonald's does not buy the entire potato but just what can be turned into fries. The skins and unusable potatoes would be fermented. The solid residue was used in cattle feed and the ethanol was part of the blend.

When I wrote a paper for the French Ministry of Energy about fuel ethanol in 1999, one the biggest costs that does not get calculated is the cost of a military presence in oil producing countries. Once that was factored in, ethanol became a factor. Brazil has used a 20-25% ethanol mix since the 70s. The break even point back then was if oil was cheaper than $40 / barrel, ethanol was a loss. But over the last 20 years, oil has always been over $40 other than 2020. As of Oct 7, 2021, a barrel of crude is $78.30.

Ethanol is only a part of solving the energy problem.

BTW, this is one of the papers I used in my research, which was published in 1995.

https://ilsr.org/wp-content/uploads/files/ethanolnetenergy.pdf

Pavel Mosko said:

I'm not surprised. A lot of liberals and progressives were seeing the silver lining when it came to Covid and the shutdowns where there was less pollution, wild animals were actually reappearing in certain places and they were touting the shut downs as being good for "Climate Change". But it's been a known fact that many things that are good for the environment are bad for the 3rd world, like putting restrictions on fossil fuels for heating, cooking and electricity etc. And in the past, there was talk in regards to things like the OP in regards to gasohol using up food for fuel, making it more expensive etc. This is beyond the point, that was already known that gasahol was not effective as far as saving energy, it actually cost more energy to make it than what it saves (If not for federal regulations, subsidies or whatever incentivizes its production it wouldn't exist).

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It's important to note that the results of shutting down the global economy are indeed a trial window into reduced carbon operations of the future, Yay!
On the down side, kids starve and millions are out of work. So there's a trade off.

GreekOrthodox said:

For example, McDonald's does not buy the entire potato but just what can be turned into fries. The skins and unusable potatoes would be fermented.

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Visiting home we often eat here. I recommend everyone eat here from now on because they make fries with the entire potato, skins and all.