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still_one

(92,422 posts) Fri Nov 24, 2017, 11:00 PM Nov 2017

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Children are starving to death in Syria

Last edited Fri Nov 24, 2017, 11:34 PM - Edit history (1)

Do not go to link if you find this too disturbing, but for god's sake what the hell is going on, and what will it take to stop the dying?

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/syria-eastern-ghouta-starvation_us_5a15ccd2e4b025f8e9333e45?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

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Children are starving to death in Syria (Original Post) still_one Nov 2017 OP

Yemen too. Glimmer of Hope Nov 2017 #1

This is the kind of world we are living in. It is awful still_one Nov 2017 #2

there is an immediate cause related to the war lapfog_1 Nov 2017 #3

No, this is the Syrian government Assad, starving out the rebel areas still_one Nov 2017 #4

yes, like I said... the war is the immediate cause lapfog_1 Nov 2017 #5

This is tragic! sadiegirl Nov 2017 #6

Glimmer of Hope

(5,823 posts)

1. Yemen too.

Reply to still_one (Original post)

Fri Nov 24, 2017, 11:30 PM

Nov 2017

still_one

(92,422 posts)

2. This is the kind of world we are living in. It is awful

Reply to Glimmer of Hope (Reply #1)

Fri Nov 24, 2017, 11:35 PM

Nov 2017

lapfog_1

(29,227 posts)

3. there is an immediate cause related to the war

Reply to still_one (Original post)

Fri Nov 24, 2017, 11:41 PM

Nov 2017

but the cause of the war is related to global climate change.

This is just the beginning of the coming resource / environment wars.

still_one

(92,422 posts)

4. No, this is the Syrian government Assad, starving out the rebel areas

Reply to lapfog_1 (Reply #3)

Fri Nov 24, 2017, 11:47 PM

Nov 2017

lapfog_1

(29,227 posts)

5. yes, like I said... the war is the immediate cause

Reply to still_one (Reply #4)

Sat Nov 25, 2017, 12:08 AM

Nov 2017

but the rebellion is due in no small part to the crop failures in Syria for going on over a decade now and the depopulation of the rural regions as people fled to the cities to find work and food.

http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/WCAS-D-13-00059.1

sadiegirl

(138 posts)

6. This is tragic!

Reply to still_one (Original post)

Sat Nov 25, 2017, 02:39 AM

Nov 2017

What's it all about, Alfie? What is wrong with the human species?

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