About
30 years ago, the famine in Ethiopia became a big story and millions of people
responded to the call. Live Aid was launched and hundreds of millions of
dollars were raised from individual donations by people from many countries. We
lived a great storm of generosity.
In
the last few days, the UN has launched a major humanitarian appeal to respond
to dramatic famine situations in Yemen, Somalia and the Sahel. The UN stated
this was a crisis of unheard dimensions.
The
appeal got a few minutes of attention here and there.
The
fact of the matter is that we are inundated with catastrophic news. And we have
seen so many pictures of human suffering on our TV screens that we have become
indifferent. We have “banalized” distress and death. And we might have also
lost a good deal of our humanity. Or maybe, not. It could just be that we are
deeply confused by the political horrors we are witnessing these days. We might
just feel too powerless.
I
wonder.
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