Food Crisis, Alarm bells ringing.
Posted by morris108 on April 15, 2008
Food crises,
Over the last week, there has not been a major publication that has not featured the growing global food scarcities.
Compared to food, all other issues are irrelevant.
I can imagine large vehicles being attacked, because their fuel hunger is inflating the price of food, through biofuel’s grain requirements.
Democracy and capitalism, will have no significance, and society’s paid guards of soldiers and police will blur into humans.
Perhaps it will herald the end of centralisation and large conglomerates, maybe we will reenter the world of small communities.
Anyway the alarm bells are ringing everywhere, even with Global warming there are dissenters and different points of view. But about growing food shortages and a bleak outlook no one is arguing.
All our governments pronouncements will sound more and more empty.
The anger will be focused on Capitalism, from fertilisers degrading land quality, to factories polluting the water, to ‘exports’ taking the food away.
Holistic health practitioners have been arguing that eating foods when they are out of season that have come from far away is not healthy. It probably is not very efficient, Mono crops like bananas or whatever being grown for export.
We have just lived through a time of abundance with some curious political experiments. It is rapidly coming to a close. The human craving to have faith in a systematic belief, created a zealousness that was out of touch with nature.
So much attention is being paid to China and India’s rising consumption, and to meat eating’s inefficiency.
Will food scarcity herald the end of the importance of speculators, I think so, currently it is the age of speculators, enshrined in law, stock markets and paper money, futures markets and middlemen.
It’s time to locate the local farm.
