2010 food crisis for dummies

countryboy

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AnnaG said:
The problem with that is that we don't seem to be particularly nutritious.

The problem is that we are slowly destroying the thing that supplies our food. The quality of food for the general population is going down. And in the meantime, the malnutrition in the poorer areas doesn't seem to have changed much. I doubt humans will die off next year if this food shortage happens, but if we keep increasing the population and destroying what supplies our food, we will have to supply our own food eventually.
Personally, though, I think potable water shortage is a more important problem.
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"The quality of food for the general population is going down." I agree.

If that rule about 'garbage in, garbage out' holds true here, would it follow that the quality of the general population is going down too? :confused2:

A prime example might be the guy who wrote the linked article in post #1. Or there might be a clue or two in the rise of certain things like diabetes and other conditions/dis-eases. Just a thought... 8O
 
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countryboy said:
SirJP, you must remember that this individual -assuming he/she is a bonafide Canadian citizen - is protected under the Charter: "Fundamental Freedoms", section 2, "Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms..." followed by part B, "freedom of thought, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication."

However, I agree with your comments. But, I won't make it a habit! :lol:
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I don't understand, countryboy. How does the Charter (which indeed is the greatest thing since sliced bread) feature in any way in my comment?
 
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Tonington said:
Malthus? He was wrong. The green revolution was well underway before the 70's. Many countries were exporting surplus agricultural commodities.

It only prolongs the inevitable choice. We will have to become sustainable, or those predictions will come true.
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Quite so, Tonington. Malthus wasn’t wrong; he was just way too early in his comments. Eventually his predictions may very well turn out to be true, but we are a long way from that happening.
 
darkbeaver

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#juan said:
DB are you just trying to depress us? Do you think that we would have only a year's warning of a worldwide food shortage? Seems to me this thread has been started before. What is the "undeniable evidence"?
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Logic dictates that the vast majority of us will have no warning at all, at first, and then too many will know. Starvation, historically, is usually an act perpetrated on the enemy far more often then it is the result of natural crop failure. Starvation is a very fine weapon against terrorism. If you control the food you control the trouble makers. Domestic terrorism has to eat. A little hunger will grease the skids on the NWOs barge. It's a very good thing we're on the good side and have seeds put away for a rainy day. For seventy-five years these evil pricks have been planning population reduction to save their own worthless hides. Starvation is on the rise. It's probably impossible to calculate how many starved or will starve for Bush's insane bio-fuel plans but I know it isn't unrealistic to suggest millions.
 
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JLM said:
I suppose it's going to happen eventually if we don't change our habits, but it isn't going to happen next year. I'm not sure which is worse, the idiot who comes up with this stuff or the idiot who perpetuates it.
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That would probably be the idiot who perpetuates it. Why isn't it going to happen next year?
 
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AnnaG said:
Like chicken.
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Anna, this is freaky, I was just going to make the exact same response when I saw yours.....:lol::lol::lol: I hope this is a case of great minds thinking alike and not small minds seldom differing.....:lol::lol::lol:
 
darkbeaver

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Tonington said:
Malthus? He was wrong. The green revolution was well underway before the 70's. Many countries were exporting surplus agricultural commodities.

It only prolongs the inevitable choice. We will have to become sustainable, or those predictions will come true.
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Food sustainability under the present economic paradigm is impossible by design. Tonington the Green Revolution was simply this, to push the indigenous off their lands at gunpoint and put them to work packing pineapples in a factory, and nothing else, despite the miles and miles of rhetoric.
 
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darkbeaver said:
Food sustainability under the present economic paradigm is impossible by design. Tonington the Green Revolution was simply this, to push the indigenous off their lands at gunpoint and put them to work packing pineapples in a factory, and nothing else, despite the miles and miles of rhetoric.
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The horror stories of how the world is going to come to end due to food shortage are nothing new, darkbeaver. The conspiracy website, WorldNet Daily (which is also a birther website, it believes that there is a huge, gigantic conspiracy to keep Obama in power, in spite of him being an illegal alien), has been wailing about the coming food shortage for months (I think they started just after Obama came to office).

Since you seem to revel in conspiracy theories, Armageddon type of scenarios, you may find the following interesting:

Food Shortage - How To Prepare For The Coming "Food Shortage" With Food Storage Secrets
 
darkbeaver

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SirJosephPorter said:
The horror stories of how the world is going to come to end due to food shortage are nothing new, darkbeaver. The conspiracy website, WorldNet Daily (which is also a birther website, it believes that there is a huge, gigantic conspiracy to keep Obama in power, in spite of him being an illegal alien), has been wailing about the coming food shortage for months (I think they started just after Obama came to office).

Since you seem to revel in conspiracy theories, Armageddon type of scenarios, you may find the following interesting:

Food Shortage - How To Prepare For The Coming "Food Shortage" With Food Storage Secrets
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I do like a good conspiracy story don't I, and there are as many as there are detective stories, your poopooing tone leads me to think that you discount conspiracy as one of the conerstones of western culture. Indeed you may even think conspiracy did not play the largest part by far of our rise to power. No I don't have anything to do with Armageddon type stories at all. How is it that in the middle of a declared decades long war that we find you content to not dwell on the very real pinch points. Gold is a good investment but you can't eat it and unless you have gun toughies you can't keep it, so because my pure unselfish concern for my fellow posters compells me to inquire after their table and larder needs I see no reason whatever that you should enjoy any unearned mirth at the thought of my imagined discomfort. What in hades is a birther website, I won't get infections there will I? You young people have no respect.
 
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Maybe it would be prudent to wait until there is a world wide crop failure of ALL crops before we make such dire predictions. There's some people who are obviously very bored or very stupid. Maybe it would be wise also to check how much is in storage in ware houses.
 
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JLM said:
Anna, this is freaky, I was just going to make the exact same response when I saw yours.....:lol::lol::lol: I hope this is a case of great minds thinking alike and not small minds seldom differing.....:lol::lol::lol:
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oops, I was just going to say something, um musta forgot,
oh well. lol
 
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This almost sound like a little kid with his fingers stuck in his ears saying, "I can't hear you." Sooner or later we need to alter our unsustainable lifestyles or we will be forced to. Starvation is usually a good motivator.
 
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