As I ate my microwaved little bowl of black beans, red kidney beans, barley, lentils, blackeye peas, collard greens, carrots, onions, cranberries and local-growned potato with extra sharp cheddar and slices of whole wheat bread with I Can't Believe It's Not Butter spread on them, I red about this:
the Brit Gov just completed a 2-yr study only to find that by 2050 global food supplies won't be sufficient to feed everyone. Food prod. must rise 70% to feed the 9B of us by then. Well, unless most of America goes on a diet. Conflict over land, water and energy will hamper food prod. And, by the by, the recent rise in food prices, the global econ "slump" and the floods and droughts forced another 115M peeps into poverty and hunger. >1B of us go hungry every day. And many die of it. Especially children. Govs are now stockpiling grains. Yr on yr, corn is up 83%, wheat 75%, soybeans 56%. Rice had a recent surge of 250%. Sugar @ 30-yr highs. 60 food riots in 30 countries in recent years. Megatrends: 1, rapid reduction in arable land; 2, fast growing population; 3, water shortages; 4, changing diets; and 5, decreasing crop yields. My thought is what about sucking out ocean water (through reverse osmosis plants) and piping it into land areas in need of ag water? We pipe oil and natural gas, we can surely pipe water. And the oceans are full of it. And we can power the osmosis plants with nuke, solar, wind, whatever. It could solve 1 and 3 and maybe 5 of the above-mentioned megatrends. What we seem to have is a lack of will and/or leadership from our elected officials. It sickens our souls. It hurts our hearts. Where is the care?
Ay carumba. Onward and upward, fellow pards.
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