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Wheat climbed to the highest level since August 2008 as drought threatened to damage crops in China, curbing global supplies, and Middle Eastern and African nations boosted purchases to tackle food inflation. Corn and soybeans also advanced.
Now is the time for governments to earn their money.
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theheat Wed, Feb 9, 2011 6:01:08am |
In simplest terms, consider the world's population to equal ten gallons. Next, understand the earth's resources are a five gallon bucket. Only the size of the bucket is a constant, whereas the population may only shrink or grow.
Ten gallons does not fit in a five gallon bucket.
Climate change and increasing demands for space and food are going to bring this to a head, and the impact of droughts and food shortages will only get worse.
Manage our resources better. Decrease the impact of the population on a finite resource.
Stop making more people. Stop treating the planet like a disposable resource. Stop justifying either with scripture, and look at the facts.
Conservation 101 in layman's terms.
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Bob Dillon Wed, Feb 9, 2011 10:36:50am |
re: #1 theheat
"Only the size of the bucket is a constant, whereas the population may only shrink or grow."
And population is growing exponentially vs linear - think about that for a moment.
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Bob Levin Wed, Feb 9, 2011 12:33:22pm |
re: #1 theheat
I'm going to disagree. Oh yes, this is a problem. But it doesn't have the Malthausian underpinnings that you give it.
It can be solved--but it's going to require a wise use of land, proper treaties for trade, abandoning ideological rifts between nations, intense research into more effective ways to grow food, invention and application of water purification systems, advanced ways to deliver water, fertilizer and irrigation--basically, everything and then some that the most unpopular nation in the world has already made great strides in implementing.
Food itself grows at a higher exponential rate than the population. Think of the amount of seeds any plant contains. Each human reproduces one at a time. Each plant has the seeds for dozens and dozens of offspring in the very next generation.
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