The world is going to end in 2012(Clarke, 2011), this speech is going to prove in the end of this year. Although, there are many other unstable coincidence phenomena affected people around the world, a one of interesting topics should be concerning our new generation because children are our future population and there is our future. If our children are getting hungry or sick at this morment or if they have a very bad health since they was young, what should be happen for their later life? It is a big concern among donors and researchers nowadays to fight with hunger in a story of a news from United Kingdom.
In the BBC news on February 15th, 2012 presents a children’s story that “500m children ‘at risk of effects of malnutrition’ ” (2012). This news report state in four main points. Firstly, half a billion children have stunted growth due to malnutrition from high food prices. Secondly, the “Save the children” organization in UK concern that hunger leads to child deaths in the world’s poorest countries such as Bangladesh, Peru, Pakistan, and Nigeria. Next, a nutritionist from the Save the children in Kenya said to the BCC news that a downward spiral consequence is the series of drought. Lastly, a CEO of this organization in UK raises a concern of starving children caused by high food price, climate change whereas he plan to arrange hunger summit for stop child malnutrition, which lead to child death.
According to this article, I have found one fascinating Thai research from a journal that explore child stunting from birth to two years among five districts in difference five regions in Thailand. This study recommends many good solutions in Thailand and it would be work if we know the most possible way to solve in the real specific context. The “Prevalence and incidence of child stunting from birth to two years of life in Thai children: based on to prospective cohort study of Thai Child (PCTC)” point out a important solution to solve child stunting problem since early age that government should develop nutrition and improve hospital’s newborn care projects in Thailand. This research can be benefit for Thai government to solve in the right direction and allocate their money to implement what these researchers find out. Even if, Thai government may consider this topic in the last priority, it is still important for our Thai future generation.
It is the good idea to reduce death and sick children by provide vaccinations, treatments and support food for hunger. Unfortunately, the world population is increasing and never stops increasing, whereas the world’s environment is going to deplete of natural resources and many worse scenarios affect to human. I recognize a thoughtful speech of Hans Rosling at TED change website in a title of “Hans Rosling: The good news of the decade?”. His last speech on that video said, “We will not be able to manage the environment and avoid the terrible climate crisis if we don't stabilize the world population”( Rosling, 2010). Is it the extremely humanitarian aspect that we need to reduce child malnutrition in the world? The global population is increasing especially from the biggest families in the poor countries, whereas, it is insufficient resources and food supply for them, which associate with high food prices in their area. Therefore, it show a big number of child hungers in the poorest countries that show in this news. What should we do for balancing child hunger and our limit resource of the world due to population growth in these poor countries?
One observation from this news blog was found in comments on Feb 15, 2012 that BCC’s news had closed the blog’s comments since first day of this blog was posted. It is 453 comments within midnight of that day. If BCC news’ blog allow people to give their comments until now, I think it should be over 10,000 comments in this blogs for almost a month. Refer to those comments show that readers discuss in vary of aspects such as economic, UK society, political, environment, bank, poverty, climate change, illness etc. I do comment this article in a population view.
References
Clarke Suzan. (2011, December 21). 2012 end of the world countdown based on Mayan calendar starts today. ABC news. Retrieved March 9, 2012 from http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2011/12/2012-end-of-the-world-countdown-based-on-mayan-calendar-starts-today/
500m children 'at risk of effects of malnutrition'. (2012 February 15). BBC news. Retrieved March 9, 2012 from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-17034134
Mongkolchati, A., B. Thinkhamrop, et al. Prevalence and incidence of child stunting from birth to two years of life in Thai children: based on the Prospective Cohort Study of Thai Children (PCTC). J Med Assoc Thai 93(12): 1368-1378. Retrieved March 9, 2012 from http://www.mat.or.th/journal/index.php?command=preview&selvol=93&selno=12&selids=2857
Rosling H. (2010 October). Hans Rosling: The good news of the decade?
TEDx change. Retrieved March 9, 2012 from http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_the_good_news_of_the_decade.html
http://article.wn.com (2009). North-West: Battling Malnutrition, Child and Maternal Mortality. jpg. f. f. d. b. f. e. grande. London, World news. 468 × 349 (3x larger).
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