The Annual Holocaust

Just heard a BBC report on the drive home, discussing the report by WHO that a record *low number of children died of starvation & preventable diseases last year: 9.7 million.

In 1959, Buckminster Fuller (one of my heroes) predicted that the outright conquest of poverty would occur on or around the year 2000. This was a logical deduction from the fact that industrial efficiency had improved astronomically over the first half of the 20th century. To put it simply, providing everyone with enough food to survive is no longer a technical problem.

In 1977, almost twenty years later, the National Academy of Sciences confirmed Fuller’s prediction. Their World Food and Nutrition Study, prepared by 1,500 scientists, concluded, “If there is the political will in this country and abroad... it should be possible to overcome the worst aspects of widespread hunger and malnutrition within one generation.”
http://www.bfi.org/our_programs/who_is_buckminster_fuller

Do you mind if I call attention to the "if"?

So many things are merely a matter of "political will" nowadays...