Ignoring the marginalized elsewhere

My moral outrage hit a high temperature this morning reading a great post from Reuters. How can we allow this to happen unless as a species we have removed our compassion and moral responsibility for others?

This was Reuter’s post’s teaser in my daily email – I pay for Reuters News as one of my objective news sources – one gets what they pay for.

That prompted me to read the full article – which is a work of art. They did a great job of explaining the different levels (Phase) of Food Insecurity scale. Phase 5 is the worst – at death’s door.

In June, the IPC said more than 750,000 people in Sudan were facing catastrophic hunger, Phase 5 on its food insecurity scale. Worldwide, 1.9 million fall in that category, more than double the 2023 number, according to the Global Report on Food Crises, produced by a food-security analysis consortium.

Reuters

The situation is dire. The question is how do we (the rest of the world) stand by and do nothing? A moral outrage that so many other human beings are suffering to the point of death. … It seems we in the western world are too consumed with the scandal or financial windfall of the day. This is morally wrong – irrational and completely non-christian via my reading of New Testament.

Warfare and the rest of the world’s ignoring everything makes it all worse.

What can you do? Learn, understand and determine what is in your karma to do … there’s no hope without action.