The only guard
against a «parade of horrors» — that is, the corruption, morally speaking, of famine
efforts by hidden, alternative and immoral
objectives — is for famine relief to be undertaken as a multilateral, globally communal
effort involving the U.S., the U.S.S.R., the Peoples» Republic of China, the petroleum - rich countries in the Middle East, and many of the richer western European countries.
Check out (and give feedback) on the
effort to provide
objective principles for scientific forecasting and to audit
against them at: Public Policy Forecasting.