I'm going to present "Shortage and Plenty" from the book.
In western Europe, periods of shortage have alternated with periods of plenty. This is because a security of the supply increased greatly. Through the post-Columbian metamorphosis, the trade routes and the import of food crops were developed. Thanks to the agrarian and industrial revolutions, means of food transport developed. At the same time, processes of democratisation during the past two centuries enabled people to distribute food equally. And wages went up, the prices went down.
Between 1400 and 1800, from the Middle Ages to the eve of the Industrial Revolution, mass poverty and crisis of hunger occured in Europe. Amartya Sen, an economist, said, "Starvation and famine are therefore not in the first place the outcome of instability and shortages of food dupply. Hunger, on the contrary, is much more dependent on entitlements and ownership patterns prevailing in the community.
For me, the idea is very difficult so I may not understand it exactly. I think hunger is not the person's responsibility. His class is most related to hunger. The society should make a structure that help people of low classes.
In tomorrow's class, I introduced a video relating to the story, and explain more detail.
I think it is quite ridiculous how there is such a big gap between the wealthy and the poor, creating a very unbalanced society in many countries.
返信削除If everyone learned to share there would obviously be no such problems...which is easier said than done!
But, i do think we could all make a big difference by trying not be be so wasteful with the food we use.