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The End Of Plenty: The Global Food Crisis


World  (tags: world, Global Food Crisis, Overpopulation, Climate change, Biofuels, Water Scarcity, Poverty, Hunger, Corporate Interests, Alteranative agriculture )

Suri
- 203 days ago - ngm.nationalgeographic.com
Climate change--with its hotter growing seasons and increasing water scarcity--is projected to reduce future harvests in much of the world, raising the specter of what some scientists are now calling a perpetual food crisis.So what is a hot, crowded...
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Ralph Sutton (49)
Wednesday June 10, 2009, 10:06 pm
There was and is a food crisis, but it has nothing to do with global warming. It has everything to do with greed!! The record crops were a result of the demand for bio-fuels. The grain that was produced was not for human consumption, if it had been there would have been plenty of food available, but food crops do not pay as well as bio-fuel crops. The green movement can take full credit for this food crisis. Don't try to blame global warming; global warming is a hoax designed to create a new source of revenue for the government and to make people like Gore super rich at our expense.
 

mary f. (78)
Thursday June 11, 2009, 1:04 pm
noted
 

Laurel W. (212)
Sunday June 14, 2009, 11:22 pm
With the human population going up 200,000 people a day we should brace ourselves.--This number means we are adding a Mexico to Earth every year and 1/2 and an Africa every decade.
We already use 20% more renewable resources a year than the Earth can produce in a year.--losing battle. It Isn't human greed friends, it is human stupidity. The truest form of greed is having too many children.

Humans are using 50% of the available fresh water supply leaving all other species to compete for what is left. I guess if we were the ONLY species in the ecosystem there would be enough. ahahahah Ridiculous.

"Our food reserves are at a 50-year low but, by 2030, we need to be producing 50 per cent more food. At the same time, we will need 50 per cent more energy and 30 per cent more fresh water.
--Prof John Beddington, British government's chief scientist.

Peak Oil hits in 2020 and with that comes mass starvation.

Global warming aside, we have set ourselves up to starve a billion of us to death. --no compassion in that.
Peak oil will kill at least a billion, some projections say as many as 4 billion. All we really needed was birth conrtrol and all of this would be a mute point. But everyone believes they are entitled. --pure greed but mostly stupidity, that the end all be all of human existence is breeding. All of the precious babies will end up eating dirt patties unless benevolent scientists and activists manage to bail these miserable, selfish, jerks and save us from the hell they are creating for all life on Earth.

It has taken 3.5 billion years for this biodiversity to evolve. The natural rate of extinction 1 species per year. The present rate is 1 per hour due to human activities.


Mass murering 55 billion animals a year for food is greed. There is not enough food and water for the animals and only a person who has not studied the food supply would suggest what we are doing is sustainable.
It is not sustainable at all. We are destroying not just ourselves, but the future of mankind and all of these wonderful species attempting to inhabit the planet with us.

The factory farming for the greedy humans who consume meat has poisoned the ground water in 22 states, created a dead zone 7 miles long in the Gulf of Mexico, not to mention the horrid conditions the poor animals live in. Truly sick. A vegan, vegetarian diet is the only sustainable diet and it is the only one that is not horribly cruel to other species.
 

Laurel W. (212)
Sunday June 14, 2009, 11:24 pm
oops typo moot point. ahah
 
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