The world should pool its resources because the way the drought is affecting the people of East Africa is killing them. It is reasonable that one cannot live in conditions where there is a minimum amount of food and water. People need to meet their basic needs to survive, and East Africa is far from the ideal place to do so due to drought. The people of East Africa have limited crops that mostly fail due to lack of water, small herds of livestock due to the heat and poor soil on which to feed themselves, while the rest of the world has the resources to provide large-scale aid scale (Stewart, 2011). This is a big problem because on a global scale we are letting the people of East Africa suffer when there is no need. Drought in East Africa is causing much conflict and death due to lack of food and water. Meaning of Drought“For much of the history of our species we have not been able to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, disease, and comet personally. We have created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature (Druyan).” According to Fox, the drought was also seen as a slow-motion train wreck. We still have little time to get people out safely before the crash. This drought is causing a long dry spell in regions where rainfall is usually quite frequent. From then on this drought is turning into a famine because the area affected by the drought is very large and it is causing many conflicts for the survival of people (2011). These areas include Somalia, southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya. People's occupations, social structure and individual daily life before the drought: The standard of living before the drought was poor. Since 1984 there have been at least sixty major food crises in E...... middle of paper ...... years ago and this statistic shows that more people are living beyond two years, but are still in terrible conditions (Pflanz , 2011). Somalia's Dadaab has the largest refugee camp in the world and many are trying to move because there is no space for them (Stewart, 2011). The drought has left hardship in all three regions and the impact is large-scale. The process of solving this drought is not having the necessary impact because there are people dying every day due to this drought. Therefore, the fact indicates that this drought has changed the way of life of the people of East Africa and the effects on children who have never known the environment in any other way are all born into a life of inequality and with all the resources of the world and the ability to produce food surpluses there is no reason why people should starve not only from drought but under any conditions.