But what a pity the only way that we can think of to remove the uncomfortable sight of people dieing from our TV screens is to entangle the poor nations in neo colonialism disguised as debt relief, supported by a bunch of pop stars wearing wrist bands made by child labour in Asia.

And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

Edward Lear
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html