I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-woo l possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything's connected and change is the only constant.
Frances Moore LappRead
The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves.
Interpretation
Hunger arises from the lack of access to resources rather than a shortage of food itself.
Frances Moore Lapp's quote highlights that true hunger is not merely about the absence of food, but rather the systemic barriers that prevent the poor from obtaining the necessary resources to nourish themselves. It emphasizes the need to address issues of power and access in order to alleviate hunger, suggesting that solutions must target the root causes of poverty and inequality.
In practice
In a discussion about global poverty during a charity event.
I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-woo l possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything's connected and change is the only constant.
Hope is not wishful thinking. It's not a temperament we're born with. It is a stance toward life that we can choose...not not. The real question for me, though, is whether m hope is effective, whether it produces or is just where I hide to ease my own pain.
We got hooked on grain-fed meat just as we got hooked on gas guzzling automobiles. Big cars made sense only when oil was cheap; grain-fed meat makes sense only because the true costs of producing it are not counted.
Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy.
Hunger is a people-made phenomenon, so the central issue is power: the power of those who make the decisions about what is grown and who, or what, it's grown for.
Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.
And the elephant sings deep in the forest-maze_x000D_ _x000D_ About a star of deathless and painless peace_x000D_ _x000D_ But no astronomer can find where it is.
All problems are illusions of the mind.
It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the public and the artificial.
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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