{"id":74262,"date":"2021-05-14T12:41:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T16:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=74262"},"modified":"2021-05-14T12:41:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T16:41:31","slug":"beasley-9-million-died-of-starvation-in-2020-this-year-could-reach-30-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/blog\/2021\/05\/14\/beasley-9-million-died-of-starvation-in-2020-this-year-could-reach-30-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Beasley: 9 Million Died of Starvation in 2020; This Year Could Reach 30 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Beasley Describes, 9 Million Died of Starvation in 2020 and This Year Could Reach 30 Million &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May 13, 2021 (EIRNS)\u2014David Beasley, Executive Director of the World Food Program, in a speech May 7 in his home state of South Carolina, warned that the number of people who could die of starvation in 2021 could be 20 to 30 million. He reported that 9 million perished last year from lack of food, in contrast to the 3.24 million official 2020 world death toll from COVID-19, which, of course, is a vast undercount. His point was to call for intervention with food relief, but also to stress that the armed conflicts should stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beasley spoke in his home county of Darlington, at the Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church in Lydia, which was founded in 1789.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said, as reported by <em>SCNow<\/em> daily, \u201cWhat happened in the past four years? Man-made conflict. And I say that in a gender way. It\u2019s not woman-made. It\u2019s man-made. It\u2019s literally man-made conflict.\u201d He singled out Syria, Yemen, and South Sudan for special attention as examples of dire emergency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also pointed to the ripple effects from the pandemic lockdowns. \u201cNow, because of COVID, the economic ripple effect, particularly when Western society shuts down its economy or at least turns the engines down, the economic ripple effect into low-income, middle-income, developing nations is catastrophic. And so, the number is now 270 million people literally marching to the brink of starvation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the well-known warning by Beasley, that we are facing a famine catastrophe of \u201cBiblical dimensions,\u201d he chose to recount the backstory to that phrase, which he used in April 2020, in briefing the UN Security Council. As he has often repeated, it was Tony Blair, who urged Beasley to go to the UNSC, when Blair heard Beasley\u2019s strong language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beasley Describes, 9 Million Died of Starvation in 2020 and This Year Could Reach 30 Million &#8211; May 13, 2021 (EIRNS)\u2014David Beasley, Executive Director of the World Food Program, in a speech May 7 in his home state of South Carolina, warned that the number of people who could die of starvation in 2021 could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":74266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[667,643,520,538,508,639,702,634,704],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-74262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","category-covid-19","category-updates-development","category-updates-ru","category-updates-geopolitics","category-global-diplomacy","category-healthcare-updates-development","category-healthcare","category-world-food-program","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74276,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74262\/revisions\/74276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}