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Food facts: Nearly 1 billion people world-wide, and 1 in 6 Americans, have limited access to food. 16,000 children die every day from hunger. Water: Every 20 seconds a child dies of water-related illness – a jumbo jet crashing every 4 hours. The problem has not been a lack of food, but profound inequality of rich and poor. Today and tomorrow the problem is also our failure to address global warming. Food and Literature Course addressing Food Justice, Allen Webb Wealth Inequality in America -- worse than you think and rapidly increasing:
Global Wealth Inequality -- even more troubling:
Climate Change Drought is today the single most common cause of food shortages. Because of climate change, drought in the future is likely to even more drastically impact food production.
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