The environmental devastation and human hunger and displacement are rampant. Take hunger for example. The incidence of hunger in Baltimore, Maryland, was estimated in the summer of 1992 at approximately 150,000 women, men and children who daily go to bed hungry or malnourished. This amounts to a significant portion of Baltimore's population. Moreover, in the Baltimore inner city many areas have trash heaped up in empty lots and bottles and other waste scattered in alleyways and sidewalks.
Some churches run food pantries, which easily run out of both food and money to continue their work.
Food campaigns or drives public and private fill a portion of the needed food supply. In addition, many of the hungry are homeless. Many of these especially in the colder times of the year find overnight lodging in shelters run by churches or the city government. As the 1990s have progressed, many of the homeless are now mothers with dependent children. They are unemployed, and have little to do during the day, and little hope of anything getting better.