Too Big To Fail

Are populations to big to fail? Ethiopia needs a massive food bailout to keep their people from starving to death. In a world wrought with global climate problems caused by massive use of hydrocarbons and overpopulation is it in the world's best interest to use more hydrocarbons to transport food in from distant countries to feed a population size larger than what it's land can sustain? Do the Federal Reserve Food Banks get to come in and control what people do with their new found lease on life or will another massive bailout be needed after only a few months?

Famine is a word that has been long vacant from Western cultures and so have been famine free for many years, a situation that I'm sure third world countries would like to reach as well. But if a country's population cannot feed itself from its own land base, does the world owe that country the food supplies to maintain its overpopulated state?

Discuss at the dinner table while trying to ignore the irony.