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more food may be sent to the hungry overseas, simply misunderstand the problem: there are now too many people for the carrying capacity of the land. This year, the world's population will add 93 million people; next year, 95 million. Within eight years, 800 million people will be added to the world.
Nearly all of the 123 countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America— whether or not they have "benefited" from the U.S. foreign aid program—now have more poor, more illiterate, more hungry people than they had when this program began. Yet today, the U.S. development establishment allows recipient nations to count on food shipments from this country or to depend on the empty promise that those shipments will continue tomorrow—no matter how large populations grow.
This is a cruel deception.
By means of promises, declarations and resolutions, the United States is assuming a role it cannot play, and responsibilities it cannot carry out. This perception of the United States as a limitless cornucopia is a dangerous delusion to all concerned. It is dangerous to Americans because it isn't true, and, like all evasions of reality, it eventually leads to disillusionment and despair.
But it is an even more dangerous disservice to the leaders of the crowded and hungry nations. Belief in these promises enables them also to evade reality, to evade the hard decisions that must be made if their mushrooming populations are to be matched by their own resources.
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