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I used to say I'd use the last of my money to take a trip into outer space before I die.
No more. That was my privilege talking for me.
The neglect of projects to end world hunger and reverse declining food production is just one of a number of reasons the current "space race" is a mere entertaining diversion for the 1% and a dangerous misappropriation of resources for the rest of us.

#spacerace #worldhunger #FoodSecurity #techbros #techbroligarchy #oligarchy

theguardian.com/global-develop

The Guardian · Nobel prize winners call for urgent ‘moonshot’ effort to avert global hunger catastropheBy Tracy McVeigh

«“Western governments and humanitarian groups like Live Aid are fueling an operation that will be described with hindsight in a few years time as one of the greatest slaughters in the history of the twentieth century,” says Dr. Claude Malhuret, whose relief agency, Medicins sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), has been kicked out of Ethiopia for speaking up against “the most massive violations of human rights we have seen in recent years.”»
spin.com/2015/07/live-aid-the-

SPIN · Live Aid: The Terrible Truth - SPINOne night at dinner in late 1985, a friend talked about Ethiopia being in a civil war. Neither I nor anyone else at the table had heard that. It hadn't

Research by Wageningen University & Research shows that 'between 33 percent and almost 60 percent extra calories would be present in human food if crops that are directly suitable for human consumption are grown on arable land that is currently used for the production of animal feed.' #worldhunger #foodwaste #foodtransition wur.nl/nl/onderzoek-resultaten

WURRapport over extra beschikbaarheid voedsel bij vervanging veevoer op akkerland door voedselgewassenBy ir. JG (Sjaak) Conijn
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