Doom Quote by David Attenborough

“Mass famines still strike some areas from time to time, but they are exceptional, and they are almost always caused by human politics rather…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The window of opportunity to avert famine is rapidly closing and could already have closed. The real issue facing us is not whether there…

— Catherine Bertini

“Famines are not natural disasters. Famines are man-made. Droughts happen from time to time. But in this century, for any drought to metastasize into…

— Jeffrey Gettleman

When we talk about famine, people start listing, as I have, its many different elements. We must not let the complexity of the subject…

— Amber Rudd

“There are no longer natural famines in the world; there are only political famines. If people in Syria, Sudan or Somalia starve to death,…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Famine isn’t unique to humans. All species are subject to it everywhere in the world. When the population of any species outstrips its food…

— Daniel Quinn

Famines occur under a colonial administration, like the British Raj in India or for that matter in Ireland, or under military dictators in one…

— Amartya Sen

Famine is about so much more than food: it is about a famine of education, democracy, health, transport, and so many other items. The…

— Amber Rudd

Famines are political. We all know that the immediate response to a famine must be food, aid, and shelter, but we should also look…

— Amber Rudd

African famine is not a visitation of fate. It is largely man-made, and the men who made it are largely Africans.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it), rather than…

— Amartya Sen

We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and it's not…

— David Attenborough