Re: those 'Save the Children” ads on TV. Yes, I do feel very sorry for those African children who are living on next to nothing in most of the slum areas.

They are only doing what nature requires – to grab what morsels of food they can get, mostly not fresh.

The ones to blame are their parents who are ignorant of the human plague already on our planet, as food is becoming more scarce each year while humans expand, which increases the greenhouse effect, and more poisonous emissions are produced, with consequently more severe weather change!

Birth control is an urgent problem which should have been enforced many years ago, and that would have lessened the already bad situation of too many humans.

Problems will get worse – not better, as we reach seven billion by December 2011, and eight billion by 2035!

It is nature's way of controlling life, but we have intervened, with dire consequences.

Ernest Izett, Tauranga.