What the actions of world leaders have effectively said is that we will sacrifice our economic growth in exchange for the ability to ensure that current debt can continue to be serviced.
Sacrificing economic growth compounds the problem of current debt.
What the actions of world leaders have effectively said -- loud, clear, underlined and bolded -- is that the protection of existing wealth is of paramount importance and the generation of new wealth is secondary-to-incidental.
That said, one needs to know the breadth and depth of the impact of famine vs a typhoon to know which would be worse.
4 decades of famine that negatively affects half the population may be the lesser evil compared to 1 typhoon that outright destroys half the population and thus future economic potential.
What the actions of world leaders have effectively said is that we will sacrifice our economic growth in exchange for the ability to ensure that current debt can continue to be serviced.