I believe, that nature takes control at times, and when life becomes unsustainable for whatever reason, famine, earthquakes, tsunamis, plagues strike. The world is over populated. It isn't pretty or fair or any of the things that we want it to be but it is natural. The nature of man is bloodshed. The earth throws up famine, disease, pestilence, disasters.........we have been trying to help for as long as I can remember and I am not sure that we have been much help at all.
I wonder how many peope are alive and sufering now because we 'saved' their parents enough for them to be born and live lives of poverty. We can send food, and medicines, but we rely upon sweat shops making our nice stuff for us and modern slavery providing cheap IT options and we love a bargain holiday with sunshine and local colour, ride an elephant, hold hands with Orangutans, visit the Arctic. We don't really give it a second thought.
The truth is we don't care enough to change our ways, we are part of all the problems..........aid has reached the point where it perpetuates the problems, all those nice little kiddies we want to fatten up and care for, will be cannon fodder if they survive.
Maybe famine knows best. I have been watching these stories unfold for years and years, can lives be lived in places where nothing grows? Can we have unworn stuff in our wardrobes while others are naked, can we eat Quinoa without putting the price up for the locals?
When you have all you need and have fulfilled the heirarchy of needs, then you seek to have spiritual fulfillment.........just as celebrities do, we are wealthy enough now to want to be philanthropists, to take on causes and to vitue signal out views to other so that we can reflect them to ourselves.
But generally if it doesn't cost us anything we don't want to part with.
And why shoudn't animals have consideration and trees and and all other life forms...........we are all part of the same thing.