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Hunger
Here is
where you find the details on why the GENI Initiative
is a compelling argument for reducing hunger and maintaining
quality of life on a global basis.
Index
Keyword
phrases (hunger):
Starvation
kills 35,000 every day
35 thousand
children die each day from hunger and hunger-related
illnesses. These 13 million annual deaths can end if
society intitiates already known solutions to the issue
of ending hunger.
A key
to providing adequate nutrition and health care in
any community is electrical energy; for the refrigeration
of food and medicine and the pumping and filtering
of water and the resultant waste water and sewage.
Energy enables irrigation of crops and the processing,
packaging and transport of bulk food.
When a
society reaches a threshhold of 2,000 kilowatt hours
per person per year, infant mortality falls below
50 per year (the United Nations determination between
"hungry" and "non-hungry" nations). Also at this threshold,
safe drinking water becomes available to 80% of the
affected population.
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