Can Capitalism Solve World Hunger?

Want to make videos like mine? Check out Storyblocks! https://storyblocks.com/secondthought We're often told just how productive a capitalist economy is. We produce far more than we need...so why are there still so many hungry and malnourished people? In this episode we'll investigate the real cause of world hunger, and assess whether capitalism has the tools to solve this massive problem. Can Capitalism Solve World Hunger? – Second Thought SUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTS New video every Friday! Citations and Further Reading: The Elon Musk world hunger tweet saga https://www.abc10.com/article/news/ve... https://fortune.com/2022/02/15/elon-m... 829 million people/~10% of people https://www.actionagainsthunger.org/w... 25,000 daily deaths https://www.theworldcounts.com/challe... 3.1 million children die of malnutrition every year https://www.theguardian.com/global-de... World hunger is on the rise https://www.actionagainsthunger.org/w... Famines https://www.wfp.org/stories/hunger-ho... Food insecurity affects 38 million Americans https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-... Food insecurity affects 8% of American children https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/... We produce enough to feed 10 billion people https://doi.org/10.1080/10440046.2012... Our Changing Climate’s food waste video    • Food Waste causes Climate Change. Here's h...   ⅓ of the food produced, 1.3 billion tons, gets wasted each year https://www.wfp.org/stories/5-facts-a... approximately%20 US%241%20 trillion Food waste along the supply chain https://www.foodengineeringmag.com/ar... 34% of the food grown gets wasted at the farm https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... Farmers respond to price fluctuations https://jacobin.com/2017/03/food-prod... Farm waste during the pandemic https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/bu... “Ugly produce” companies aren’t helping https://www.theatlantic.com/health/ar... https://newrepublic.com/article/15259... Best before dates aren’t regulated/standardized https://www.vox.com/22559293/food-was... 40 million Americans live in food deserts https://www.aecf.org/blog/exploring-a... Supermarkets stock 10x larger food products and plates have increased 36% in size http://www.meta-systems.eu/nickbrown/... Refrigerators have gotten 30% bigger and cost half as much https://appliance-standards.org/produ... The commodification of food https://jacobin.com/2017/03/food-prod... Structural adjustment programs https://www.globalissues.org/article/... Gambian fish story https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/202... Food for beginners https://archive.org/details/FoodForBe... World hunger book (outdated statistics, but the analysis is still relevant) https://www.tni.org/files/download/ho... http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.... Twelve myths about world hunger http://cf.linnbenton.edu/artcom/socia... Food justice is class war https://jacobin.com/2016/09/agricultu... Unequal exchange    • How Rich Countries Rob The Poor; The Failu...   https://www.tni.org/es/node/4597 Follow and Support Second Thought! Twitter:   / _secondthought   Patreon:   / secondthought   BuyMeACoffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/secondth... CashApp: $JTChapman Business Email: [email protected]