My Anwer To NewbieGames Jeopardy - Where Every Valid Answer Is A Winner: Solving World Hunger

World hunger is something we have all thought about one time or another. But for most of us - it's us just a passing thought.

We are not forced to confront the issue face to face with a gnawing feeling in our stomach as it is eating itself. Most of us have the luxury of not having to walk past our malnurished neighbors every day on our way to a filthy waterhole 1 mile away. So naturally - we don't really see it for the problem that it is. We've all seen Sally Struthers and more recently - that gentle faced bearded guy showing pictures of starving kids who want to eat a meal for just the price of a cup a coffee. The another commercial comes on reminding us that it's lobsterfest at the Red Lobster and all is well again.

The problem doesn't go away just because we can't see it anymore. World hunger continues to be a major problem that humanity is facing. However, this is not a new problem for use. It's a subject important to me because I know it is something that can actually be solved. As a species , we have been facing poverty and famine since the times of the bible - so why should anything be different today? Especially when we have so many more people on the this little planet.

This is why things should be different today.

We have more power than ever before to put an end to world hunger. The tools that our governments, scientists, and doctors have access to should be able to food into the mouth of every person on the planet. We have Genetically modified food that grows twice the normal size in less time and in any season. We have indoor farming technology to combat unpredictable weather patterns. We have more efficient means of production like hydroponics and aquaponics. We have a distribution network of the likes that have never been seen before with the ability to deploy food by land , air and sea with trucks, boats and planes. The ability to communicate across the world in seconds and report the conditions of the impoverished right into peoples living rooms and government think tanks. Many humans have more money than they will ever be able to spend. The problem has nothing to do with lack of resources , but everything to do with the lack of will.

In a world where Dubai can exist, indoor ski slopes are a thing, man made islands house the mega rich, and rovers are doing donuts on Mars - there are enough resources to feed the whole world if only the resources were deployed with purpose and compassion.