The New York Times | “This Problem Is Easy to Solve”
Middle East peace, climate change, Ukraine — if Sisyphus were assigned one of today’s global problems, he’d plead to be returned to rock rolling. So let’s focus for a moment on a global challenge that we can actually solve: starvation.
I suspect that some Americans — perhaps including President Trump — want to slash humanitarian aid because they think problems like starvation are intractable. Absolutely wrong! We have nifty, elegant and cheap solutions to global hunger.
Consider something really simple: deworming. I’m traveling through West Africa on my annual win-a-trip journey, in which I take a university student along on a reporting trip, and every day we see children plagued by worms that aggravate their malnutrition. Nutrients go to their parasites, not to them.
