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From Diagnosing the Problems to Remediationtakes him. Certainly there are great arguments as to why we should extend the life of thisravenous and dysfunctional economic, social and sexual system. But I just don’t know thosereasons. On the other hand there are many reasons for me not to write an article like this.It’s not going to win me many friends, only evoke justified outrage among the selfrighteous,letter-writing zealots, the kind of people who never miss a chance to dive into anydebate in Irish life with their smarmy smiles and moral superiority...So please, spare me, you righteously outraged, with your talk about our own great famineor any other nonsense analogies. No comparison exists. Twenty years after the famine in Ireland(Note JM: the author is referring to the Great Irish Famine, “Gorta Mór” which lastedfrom 1845 to 1852. Ireland at the time lost 20 to 25 % of its population, many more immigratedabroad and the country has never reached the same population as it had before thefamine) its population was 30 % lower. In the same time, thanks to Western food aid, Mercedesten-wheelers and Hercules aircraft, the population of Ethiopia has more than doubled.Unfortunately this poor country hasn’t been alone in this madness. Somewhere over therainbow is Somalia, another excellent country for loafers with permanently bloated stomachs,who shoot off their Kalashnikovs, chew khat leaves and mutilate the genitals of little girls.Today we have nearly an entire continent of sexually hyperactive paupers and tens of millionsof people who have only survived thanks to aid from the outside world.This dependence has not led to political prudence or healthy common sense. Just theopposite, it appears that voodoo idiotism is now on the rise, led by the future president ofSouth Africa who firmly believes that water from the tap on a post-coital penis is sufficientprevention against infections. Not to mention that poverty, hunger and social collapse wasnot prevented by the wars in Somalia, Uganda, Congo, the Sudan, Eritrea, et cetera.Of course, now I’m just rambling on. However, these are indeed the impulses with whichthey are writing the sentences and chapters of their own history. Japan, China, Russia, Korea,Poland, Germany, Vietnam, Laos and even Cambodia have taken more severe blows in the 20 thcentury alone than just about any part of Africa.Today nearly all of these countries provide Africa with aid or invest in Africa, while Africawith its never ending savannah and fertile grasslands hasn’t given anyone anything back—with the exception of AIDS. Even among African nations, resources are being exhausted at thecost of catastrophic ecological degradation. In 2050 the population of Ethiopia should reach177 million, or the equivalent of today’s Germany, France and Benelux combined, but locatedin arid and nutrient stripped deserts of the Great Rift Valley.What sense does it make to actively support increasing the population levels in countriesthat are already overpopulated, environmentally devastated and economically dependenton others? What kind of morals involve saving the life of a hungry Ethiopian child whocan expect a brutal circumcision, poverty, hunger, violence and sexual abuse, only to breedanother half dozen children with the wide and open eyes of hunger and comparably “joyous”lives? Of course, it may give you a warm feeling, which is the main reason for such charity.But that is not enough.193