What is happening in the Darfour is an example of how much we are disregarding human desolation. But there are catastrophes happening at an even larger scale and mankind can simply not manage a turnover over all those regions apart from the fact of incompetence in those regions managing relief efforts made to the hungry that live there. There is also a gradual lack of integration of less fortunate souls on the North American continent over the past recent decades that has caused an unimaginable amount of stress and has contributed to larger loss of life. One has only to see what the statistics will be for Katrina victims in the US who managed to escape the storm but now have had to deal with the stress of displacement and that of being unwelcome in other neighbourhoods.
The earthquake in China has had a report of over forty thousand dead. What about the displaced people who will be dying from exposure or lack of a proper nutrition? What about the forced migrations that occur in areas of the globe where food agencies are blocked from entry after a cyclone? It appears that every now and then we think we have seen the world's worst catastrophe when there are others that are far more dangerous.
It seems that giving assistance is becoming more difficult because of the millions of more people living under squalid conditions as the world population continues to explode.
I think though that assistance should still be given even though one is only helping an even smaller fraction of those that can actually benefit. By that I mean with population growth occurring exponentially compared to the per capita growth of developed countries there will be an ever increasing need among the disadvantaged nations. One only has to look at the statistics taken during this unofficial recession compared to that taken in 1992 or earlier.
