Is giving Sahel foreign aid good for the environment?

Sahel is hit by famines and droughts frequently. There is a amazingly high death toll in Sahel due to starvation and diseases. Moreover, they are on the brink of desertification and if they are swallowed up by the deserts, there would be adverse effects on the nearby countries. They also have a lack of technology and do not have the abilities and supplies to cure their diseases and solve the starvation problem. With foreign aid, they would be supplied with food and medical supplies and the death toll would be reduced. This may sound like a good thing. But is it? By reducing the death toll, we are actually increasing their population. This increase in population would lead to overcultivation and overgrazing. Overcultivation and overgrazing also causes desertification as it leaves the topsoil exposed. This topsoil could be blown away by strong winds, thereby causing the land to be barren. The barren land will turn into deserts, and again, if Sahel is turned into a desert, the surrounding countries would be affected too.

Note: I would suggest we drop a nuclear bomb in Africa and sink the whole continent. The world would be much happier without blacks and we do not have to bother about the environmental issues they are facing.


haiz... today had geog lesson... walao... it's damn torturing sia... we had to listen to groups presenting their mindmaps about various issues of environmental degradation... blah blah... and i was suffering having to sit there and listening to their yabbering... felt damn sian... wanted to go home... it felt like during the later parts of the rg exchange programme... i was feeling damn down and i wanted to go home... but i still endured through though...

anyway while wilson, kenneth and i were walking across the aerobridge in school, he was playing with his geog worksheet and the wind blew it off his hands...(mind you, we are at 7th level... so it's damn bloody windy...) haha... panic sia... fortunately the paper was caught by the railing thingy and was sort of lying on the edge... whew! then i felt a draft on the back of my neck... uh oh... i reached for the worksheet...... but was too late... that same draft blew the paper off the edge and it went flying from the 7th floor all the way down... it stayed airborne for like about 1 minute though... as the wind was keeping it in the air... haha... so the 3 of us were standing there watching the paper flying here and there until it disappeared behind the opposite building... haha... anyway we were on our way to our chinese classes when that happened so wilson went all the way down to look for his paper while i slacked in class...

i shall end off now... (dun wanna make the post too long... if not nobody would read...) and also i want to sleep as early as possible...