Hrg.
It's not like terrorists don't cause any problems. They are causing unrest in lots of areas like you said. However, I agree that at the same time they are by no means the source of all problems. Personally, I think it's important to get rid of terrorists though, because in areas of genocide and such, like Andi said with governments shooting their own people, I think that if all of that would just stop, the stupid area could finally start focusing on its own well being and development.
Only, with the car crashes, is kind of debatable to me. Yes there are a lot of car crashes and deaths by car accidents, but I wonder who would opt to ride 500 miles by bike rather than by car. Also, if you were using the bike, how could you move X tons of steel, plastics, cars, piping, infrastructure materials such as wire for electric lines or other things, etc. Trains are a good alternative for cargo but people seem to be using more airplanes for that now, atleast in the US. Where exactly did you here about the government getting bribed by drug dealers? It's a believable claim, but, I don't see anything that supports it really. One thing that gets me about that is, if we were being bribed...atleast the US anyway...then we would probably be with the movement for legalized marijuana in the US. We also wouldn't have the anti drug programs in schools and such.
I don't think it's a good thing that large food industries throw out their food. If they sold it in Africa no one could buy it, BUT they could give it away certainly!
If they did sell all of it, I'm not sure what would happen. Bear with me as I try to analyze the impact of this using my limited knowledge. Hm. Well, what would happen is they would probably sell the same amount of food, and they would lose money for the food the could've sold at the higher price. So, all that extra food goes to waste anyway. Then, the farmers and employees working for the food company get paid less, I think, and their quality of living goes down. Also the food company can't pay as much to get its grain shipped from the fields to the factories when they need the rail roads to haul grain everywhere, so they might have problems with that. Not to mention packaging and processing the stuff from the fields so it looks like what's in the stores. They need to hire people to run all of those things, so that's more money they need to spend, but they made less money because prices were lower so it was harder to pay these people too.
Well, I hope that was atleast 5% correct. If I got anything out of that, it would be that they might be better off giving it away to Africa.
The only problem is if the food companies go out the farmers are no longer employeed, and they grow food and sell it on their own. That would be kind of odd. So certain products would no longer be available that we liked, like cereal and stuff. Also the rail roads have lost business because the farmers can't afford to ship the crops and would probably rather just ship their harvests to local markets anyway and have no need to ship anything far away.
Bah! Get a real economics person in here and fix this! Tell me if anything in this sounds right.
Well if you were looking for something that meant anything this next sentence would be it: I agree that we cause our own problems by ignoring them.