Down to the last grain

[donsu]

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/II28Dj02.html


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Well, I don't have to ask about price inflation in the US, as John Williams of ShadowStats.com has released his latest reports, and he says that inflation is running at 10.1%. Yow! We're freaking doomed!

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He writes, "Some people worry about peak oil. I worry more about peak grain. The fact is that world per capita cereal production has already passed its peak, which was back in the mid-eighties, not least because of collapsing production in the former Soviet Union and sub-Saharan Africa. Simultaneously, however, rising incomes in Asia are causing a surge in worldwide food demand."

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"And what is worse is that this terrible, terrible news is for a theoretically stable population that is merely changing its demand for cereal grains! So now add that additional demand to a population that is also growing, and you can see where Malthus was right; a population that rises geometrically with a food supply that can expand only linearly means bad, bad news (BBN)!"

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Then he deflates my whole ego trip when he says that this is all academic anyway, and we are freaking doomed, by writing, "Whether Malthus' ghost is ultimately vindicated or laid back to rest by technology, the threat of food shortages - and consistently higher grain prices - is a fixture of the times."

Or, as The Mogambo has said so many times, "We're freaking doomed!"
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add to that climate change is ruining crops all over the world. and will continue to ruin them more and more so that we have less and less food for more and more people.

(learn how to grow your own food. you don't have to do it yet but at least have the 'how to' books)