If my country's farms used to produce 2 billion calories per day which kept up with demand, and they drop to only producing 1 billion calories per day and now we have a food shortage - does the nation "want more stuff" because we want to import more food, or do we merely want the same amount of calories as before?
If you have less than you use to, but want to have the same as you used to, that means you want to have more than you currently do.
I think you're trying to appeal to some emotional notion of fairness, but its really irrelavent here. The world is unfair, and the consequences to actions don't care whether or not it seems "fair".
