Forty Chances by Howard G. Buffett gave me an interesting insight into the problems of the world. People in other countries, especially the countries in Africa have such different lives. These people have grown up and live in such a different way than we have, and do in the United States. In South Africa, people have a different view of life, in the sense that we are always rushing through life where they seem to be calmly enjoying the ride. While we are enjoying almost every convenience, the people of the South Sudan are wondering if they will receive the food the NGOs send them. In the United States, we will only ever see an elephant in a zoo, in Botswana they are as many elephant as there are people, they can hardly keep the population under
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Buffett stated that “in my experience, the most interesting comments seem to occur once my dinner companions have passed the six-beer mark,” (237-238). In this particular case, Buffett learns about groups in South Sudan that blackmail NGOs into sending food to villages, so they can take thirty percent of what is sent. How can America help? How can we stop these groups without hurting the villagers? This is a difficult predicament, it is hard to think about this, as this problem does not, as of yet, have a …show more content…
Another idea that was quite interesting, “according to Dr. Stronza, in this study region, right now there approximately fifteen thousand elephants and fifteen thousand people,” (Buffett 261). The same amount of people as there are elephants. Those numbers are astounding, how can something like that happen? The humans and elephants are almost fighting over land. Reading the chapter, it felt as if these two groups were having a war. I found it interesting the different was the villagers and the experts tried to solve the elephant issue. The villagers were scared and angry, the did not care about the elephants they just wanted to be safe. Whereas the experts wanted an agreement of sorts between the two species. This makes me think how there are many ways to look at a problem. The elephants and villagers will do anything to their own. The experts have a more clear view of this issue from the
Buffett stated that “in my experience, the most interesting comments seem to occur once my dinner companions have passed the six-beer mark,” (237-238). In this particular case, Buffett learns about groups in South Sudan that blackmail NGOs into sending food to villages, so they can take thirty percent of what is sent. How can America help? How can we stop these groups without hurting the villagers? This is a difficult predicament, it is hard to think about this, as this problem does not, as of yet, have a …show more content…
Another idea that was quite interesting, “according to Dr. Stronza, in this study region, right now there approximately fifteen thousand elephants and fifteen thousand people,” (Buffett 261). The same amount of people as there are elephants. Those numbers are astounding, how can something like that happen? The humans and elephants are almost fighting over land. Reading the chapter, it felt as if these two groups were having a war. I found it interesting the different was the villagers and the experts tried to solve the elephant issue. The villagers were scared and angry, the did not care about the elephants they just wanted to be safe. Whereas the experts wanted an agreement of sorts between the two species. This makes me think how there are many ways to look at a problem. The elephants and villagers will do anything to their own. The experts have a more clear view of this issue from the