MICHAEL SNYDER
Our world is witnessing apocalyptic events so frequently that many of us are starting to become numb to it all. Major wars are raging all over the globe, children in Africa are literally dropping dead from starvation as hunger spreads like wildfire, and "billion dollar disasters" are hitting us more frequently than we have ever seen before.
But as long as these tragedies are not affecting us directly, most people don't really care too much.
As the level of worldwide suffering rises, it seems as though hearts are getting colder at the same time. The traumatic events of the past several years have left deep scars, and there are many that prefer to ignore the apocalyptic things that are happening in the world because it is just too much for them to handle emotionally.
According to a brand new study, the number of armed conflicts in 2023 was the most that we have seen in a single year since the end of World War II...
More armed conflicts took place worldwide in 2023 than any other year since the end of the Second World War, according to a Norwegian study published Monday.
Last year saw 59 conflicts of which 28 were in Africa, the the Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO) showed.
We really are living in a time of "wars and rumors of wars".
But since it isn't our sons and daughters that are being gunned down on the killing fields of eastern Ukraine, most of us in the western world aren't really moved by all of the bloodshed.
Every single day, more young lives are being wasted.
But if you think that things are bad now, just wait until Israel and Hezbollah start lobbing thousands of missiles back and forth, China invades Taiwan, and the Russians and NATO begin directly pummeling one another.
Meanwhile, global hunger just continues to grow.
In fact, it is being reported that the number of people facing acute food insecurity last year was the highest ever recorded...
The number of people threatened by hunger in the world has never been so high. In 2023, 281 million people in 59 countries were facing acute food insecurity, according to the 2024 Global Report on Food Crises, published on Wednesday, April 24, by several international organizations (including UN agencies, the European Union, the US Agency for International Development). This figure is up on 2022 (257 million) in its fifth year running.
"This Global Report on Food Crises is a roll call of human failings," warned UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, prefacing the analysis.
A decade ago, world leaders dreamed of a day when hunger would be eradicated.
Today, that dream is completely dead.
In Sudan, people are literally eating dirt and leaves just so that they can fill their stomachs with something...
Time is running out to prevent starvation in Sudan, warns the World Food Program.
Twenty-five million people in Sudan need humanitarian assistance, 18 million are facing acute food insecurity and 5 million people are at emergency levels approaching famine as the country's civil war passes the one-year mark.
Amid so many other crises, the world's largest hunger crisis is drawing little global attention. In the Al Lait refugee camp, for example, people are eating dirt and boiling leaves, just to have something in their bellies, reports Reuters. Others are eating grass and peanut shells, according to the World Food Program.
Since it isn't happening to us, most of us don't really care.
But hunger is growing here too.
According to one recent survey, over one-fourth of the entire U.S. population is now skipping meals due to crazy high food prices...
"Food insecurity is a major issue in this country as millions of Americans don't have enough food to eat or don't have access to healthy food," Courtney Alev, a consumer financial advocate at Credit Karma, said in a statement.
I keep warning my readers that this is just the beginning, and I hope that they are taking me seriously.
We are also living at a time when major natural disasters are becoming more frequent.
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