{"id":217979,"date":"2022-08-15T12:01:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T11:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=217979"},"modified":"2025-01-10T15:06:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:06:38","slug":"hunger-factory-the-modern-horsemen-of-the-apocalypse-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/08\/hunger-factory-the-modern-horsemen-of-the-apocalypse-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunger Factory: The Modern Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

12 Aug 2022 – <\/em>While often too quickly attributing -quasi exclusively- the world unprecedented hunger tragedy to the current proxy war in Ukraine, other major causes remain hidden in plain sight.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Food and energy prices have increased to their highest levels in decades. And 62 new food billionaires have been created. Credit: Bigstock.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Like the legend of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse<\/a>, the modern ones are a mix of combined causes: inequality; speculation; indebtedness, and the crushing impacts of climate emergency.<\/p>\n

1. Inequality<\/strong><\/p>\n

Further to IPS article: Inequality Kills One Person Every Four Seconds<\/a>, explaining how deadly inequality is and how it contributes to the deaths of at least 21,300 people each day\u2014or one person every four seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n

And also to its story reporting on how Inequality Tightens Its Grip on the Most Vulnerable<\/a>, a number of key facts emerge from the accurate findings of one of the major bodies devoted to the fight against inequality: Oxfam International<\/a>.<\/div>\n

Here are some of the major findings of its May 2022 report Profiting from Pain<\/a>, elaborated by this global movement of people working together with more than 4,100 partner organisations, allies, and communities in over 90 countries:<\/p>\n