Hunger in Africa

Join Dr. Peter Carter, Paul Beckwith and Regina Valdez as they discuss Africa’s food insecurity, the need for urgent international action and how the west has contributed to this predicament.

This video was recorded on August 3rd, 2022, and published on August 7th, 2022.

Some of the topics discussed:

• The need for urgent action in East Africa consisting of Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya and how Conflict, Climate Change, and Covid have contributed to this need.
• How over 14 Million people are on the verge of starvation with over half of them being children.
• How the trend in Africa has recently declined over the last three to four years.
• How the Horn of Africa has been experiencing severe drought and how their tropical rainforest is switching from a carbon sink to a carbon source.
• The extreme and growing wealth disparity between people and how 40 to 50% of sub Saharan Africans live below the poverty line.
• How Africa has the highest percentage of undernourished people in the world.
• How Climate Change is affecting Africa with the biggest impact being the increasing droughts.
• The history of western exploitation of Africa that has significantly contributed to weak governments and conflict.
• and more. . .

Links:

• Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant’s Guide

• A look at the drought crisis in Somalia and Kenya

• Somalia Civil War 2009 - present

• Boko Haram

• South Sudanese Civil War

• AR6-Regional Fact Sheet - Africa

• The Intertropical Convergence Zone (NASA)

• Future Shock

• The Sahara Desert is expanding

• Soil to sand: Spain’s growing threat of desertification

• The hidden holocaust

• Congolese Genocide: The Overlooked History of the Colonized Congo

Additional Link (Brought to our attention)

• The Great Green Wall

Regular Panelists:

• Dr. Peter Carter - MD, Expert IPCC Reviewer and the director of the Climate Emergency Institute

• Paul Beckwith - Climate Systems Scientist. Professor at the University of Ottawa’s Paleoclimatology Laboratory as well as at Carleton University

• Regina Valdez - Program Director, Climate Reality Project, NYC. GreenFaith Fellow and LEED Green Associate

Video Production:

• Charles Gregoire – Climate Reality Leader, Electrical Engineer, Webmaster and IT prime for FacingFuture.Earth and the Climate Emergency Forum

• Heidi Brault - Climate Reality Leader, BA(Psychology), Library & Information Technician Diploma - Video production and website assistant - Organizer and convener, Metadata technician, COP26 Team Lead for FacingFuture.Earth and the Climate Emergency Forum.

Attributions:

Background Music:

• Title: Through the City II
• Author: Crowander
• Source: Free Music Archive
• License: BY-NC 4.0

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• Image and Video Attributions