While watching the film, I was inspired to consider hope in the face of disease, growing human population, famine in sub-Sahara Africa and pending global economic collapse.
Will the earth's growing population lead to famine and pestilence?
The agricultural revolution that began about 12,000 years ago augmented the risk of famines as growing sedentary populations increasingly relied on a limited number of food sources vulnerable to droughts, diseases, and other threats.
As the virus spread, and people abandoned schools and farms, the risk of famine grew.
In the nineteen-eighties, however, a curious pattern emerged: when the children born to women who were pregnant during the famine grew up, they had higher rates of morbidity as well — including obesity, diabetes, and mental illness.
More than half a million children in Yemen face life-threatening malnutrition as a risk of famine grows, a senior official of the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday.
The continued exodus and growing death toll from the famine in Somalia is raising fresh questions about the culpability of the al-Shabaab insurgent group, which controls most of the southern part of the country.
In a distinctly Malthusian fashion, Postan proposed that the English agrarian economy saw little technical development during the period and by the early 14th century was unable to support the growing population, leading to inevitable famines and economic depression as the population came back into balance with land resources.
We've seen record drought, spreading famine, and storms that are growing stronger with each passing hurricane season.... Denial is no longer an acceptable response.
"We've seen record drought, spreading famine and storms that are growing stronger with each passing hurricane season," Mr. Obama said, linking this to global warming.
