[Havoc]

Like BM said, it's a problem of distribution (and growth, Africa simple doesn't have the climate to grow and harvest crops). Europe and almost any other country don't have a food distribution problem. I can get my food just fine and throw plenty of it out on a daily basis. So when it comes to food, there is no overpopulation here. So no need to kill anyone, let alone myself.

You want to save Africa so badly? Go in there with force, take out all the dictator scum collecting all the charity money and start building shit there. Why doesn't this happen? Because there is absolutely nothing to gain there for any country. It's a bottomless pit financially. We'll invade Iraq or Afghanistan to 'save the people' there but when it comes to Africa no-one is willing to 'save the people' by force anymore.

You can disagree with my ideas or my principles, but I don't think that being the dominant sentient species means that we can't do something about population control. None of the people currently dying in Africa contribute a thing to the advancement of society as a whole for the planet. All they are is a big bottomless pit that every country in the world has been throwing billions into for over a 6 decades. And what has changed since then? In over 60 years? Absolutely nothing. It's still the barren wasteland it was 60 years ago. People are still hungry there, like they were 60 years ago. And we're still pumping billions into it.

All of the money that has been sent to Africa in the last 60 years combined could have built an entire city that could have easily sustained the entire population. The entire continent could be a huge thriving world power if someone at some point decided to change the way they fund it.

Collecting money every year so certain doom could be delayed for yet another year does not work. If you want to save Africa you hang on to the money that's being collected right now, wait until winter and see what's left to salvage. Then help those who survived and start building a decent infrastructure so this doesn't happen again. Because for the last 60 years we've only been delaying the inevitable. The fact that millions of people are still dying after billions of dollars being sent there only supports that.

So no, maybe I don't see the smaller picture. Or the big picture. But I see the even bigger picture. And not enough people are seeing the bigger picture, otherwise Africa wouldn't be in this mess right now.