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jaco8 | 6 years ago

Reading this headline I remember my grandmother, who donated 10 bucks every month for years to this famine ravaged country via some church charity. She died poor living on minimum pension. Nobody from Ethiopia ever thanked her.

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HorizonXP|6 years ago

Are you trying to say that this is some kind of waste of money? This is literally a weather satellite to help them plan for future events, which should have a direct impact on agriculture. In my mind, a country that can go from famine ravaged to space faring within a single generation should be tremendously lauded. And the fact that it's trying to do something to help prevent another famine is commendable too.

(I realize that it's not black & white and there's likely a lot of corruption and other not-nice-things happening along the way.)

skrebbel|6 years ago

Don't feed the troll

jaco8|6 years ago

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droithomme|6 years ago

Food aid dumps from the US to Africa are correlated to liquidation of crop surpluses and our government price supports.

Evidence has built up that food dumps destabilize areas, undermine local food costs, drive local farmers out of business, and exacerbate suffering.

https://abcnews.go.com/WN/Health/us-food-aid-contributing-af...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-idead-aidi-is-dead-wr_b_1...

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/world/americas/14iht-food...

As is pointed out in another comment, this weather satellite on the otherhand is going to tremendously help local farmers.

DyslexicAtheist|6 years ago

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mikestew|6 years ago

“I gave that money so children wouldn’t starve, not so that you could at some point in the future win some Internet argument.” Unfortunately, someone stands at the ready to turn the works of others to their own purposes. Make a very big note to yourself when the story teller has no participation in the otherwise compelling story. (“My grandfather didn’t fight Mussolini just so we could...”)