What Would the World Be Like if There Were No Hunger?
"When the last person is fed, there will be a qualitative shift. People won't rush by each other. When hunger is ended, instead of single notes beaming out of each of us, there will be a symphony -- we will see that each one of us is fascinating!"
Whenever a conversation gets that poetic, you can count on someone to bring the mood back down to earth. "You know," one person said, "we've made significant inroads on hunger in the United States, but I don't sense any lightness or symphony. Why not? Is it because of the half billion over there who are still hungry? Or are you visionaries all wet? Maybe when hunger is eliminated everywhere, it will just be like the U.S. now, with all the stresses and strains."
Maybe so. Maybe it's dumb to go around asking about a world without hunger.
But I keep doing it. Somehow I think it's essential. Behind every decision to fund a foreign aid bill or start a community garden, to give to an aid organization or breed a high-yielding strain of wheat, to take a stand for justice or not to, there is some kind of a vision. Visions alone don't produce results, but we'll never produce results that we can't envision or that we don't like when we do envision them. The absence of vision is one of the main reasons there is still hunger on this earth.
http://www.sustainer.org/dhm_archive/index.php?display_article=vn192hungered
