Drought not the real cause of East Africa famine - CNN.com
Certainly, drought is a trigger of famine. And global warming might be extending the length of droughts. But Amartya Sen, the Nobel Prize-winning economist famously said that no substantial famine has ever occurred in a liberal democracy. I believe Sen is right.
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Thomas Keally protests against calling drought the cause of the famine in Somalia. Why he's certainly right, he doesn't go further to discuss the political consequences of acknowledging the real causes.
