When I think about the 1940s literature on starvation, and then I read pieces like this recent one from NPR about medical volunteers in Rafa https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2024/05/10/1250490688/rafa-hospital-gaza-israel-war-middle-east (CW: graphic text and images), all I can think about is how it's exactly the same fucking thing.
Once again, innocent people have been starved to the point where their bodies are literally falling apart.
The geopolitics is of course complicated. It always is.
But in the mean time, innocent people are starving.
One thing I'm learning, spending time with people who have dedicated their careers to research on humanitarian crises, is that there's been a shift in how and when famines occur.
40 years ago, people talked about famines as a result of droughts. The famines we're having today are the direct result of warfare.