Famine & Drought: The Rice Shortage

Why are people around the world rioting? What happens when there is an inbalance in wealth and prosperity? Today there is famine & drought and its been six years in the making. And though what's happening with the draught may be inevitable, (Famines and droughts have happened all through time.) is our reaction inevitable, too? In a flat world can we humans pull together and help each other out? or do we just watch it televised and reported like an afternoon drama? It is proven thoughout human history, that great disparities between rich and poor cause violence, political upheavel and great depressesions. There is anger and repercussions like waves in the ocean eroding the sand. “Why are these riots happening?” asked Arif Husain, senior food security analyst at the World Food Program, which has issued urgent appeals for donations. “The human instinct is to survive, and people are going to do no matter what to survive. And if you’re hungry you get angry quicker.-4/08/08 NY Times, Across Globe, Empty Bellies Bring Rising Anger, by KEITH BRADSHER”