‘Desperate families left to forage for scraps in the snow in world’s third richest country
Homeless, desperate people clambered over snow-covered debris where their villages had once stood, gathering armloads of firewood as Japan’s humanitarian crisis escalated yesterday.
In scenes more befitting a poverty-stricken Third World country than the world’s third-richest nation, hungry people wrapped themselves in odd scraps of clothing in a futile attempt to keep out the cold in temperatures only just above freezing.
They foraged for food, crying out with delight when they found an undamaged can of food here, a still-edible packet of noodles there….. source
Is it beyond the wit of man to organize food drops, at least? What the hell is going on?
