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Quality of Life:
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.
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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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