Hunger in the United States is an issue that affects millions of Americans, including some who are middle class, or who are in households where all adults are in work. Research from the USDA found that 14.9% of American households were food insecure during at least some of 2011, with 5.7% suffering from very low food security.
Flat Earth (also known as the Flat Earth myth, flat-earthism, and less commonly platygeism) is the belief that the earth â which the vast, vast majority of the population imagine in their heads as this big spherical thing (or oblate spheroidal thing, pedants) is actually flat. (Or, at least, cyclindrical.).
Of course our conversation didn't end there. They went on to ask me who hurt the Earth and how can we give it a hug so it will smile again. When it thunders, they ask me why the Earth is so angry. They intuitively know the planet is a living thing and they want to do something to make it better.