Land of plenty no longer

Keep treating gentically engineered crops like Frankenstein and suffer the consequences - starvation!

I hope we in the United States are watching this. When I lived in western Kansas 20 years ago the water table was dropping there too. Many of the man made lakes were drained by August due to using them for irrigation. Only Lake Wilson was sparred because they could not us water for irrigation from that body due to high salt content. A lot of wheat, especially winter wheat, was grown in this area of Kansas.

Depopulation would solve a lot of these problems.

Does anyone else feel the cold breath of Malthus laughing at us when reading this article?

Feed GW Bush to the hungry, then the rest of the Exuctive Branch, the Cabinet, the House, the Senate, the Pentagon, etc, etc.
It's time to reverse the food-chain. No more trickle down, but - rather, it's time to p on them for a change!

Food for oil

Rob wrote:

Depopulation would solve a lot of these problems.

But since our economy is deeply dependent on the pyramid scheme that both population and consumption will always increase in geometric measure, the economic disaster resulting from depopulation would be fairly horrific (on those who remain).

Not to worry, the world is looking to Obama and Michele to solve the world's problems. A fix is only a few months away...right?

Too bad all the African leaders bought guns instead of water treatment facilities so they would have clean water to drink and spray on crops. The short sighted and increbile stupidity of the continent is astonishing. Tribal politics scores another victory for Famine and Death.
Africa has many natural and Human resources and squanders every opportunity to help itself.

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Its a good thing we are turning more of the worlds food crop into ethanol.

gilmore wrote:

Not to worry, the world is looking to Obama and Michele to solve the world's problems. A fix is only a few months away...right?

Huh?

Rob wrote:

Depopulation would solve a lot of these problems.

Are you volunteering?

The problems in Africa go beyond the types of crop, the weather and population growth. There are corruptions, wars and the dependency on foreign aids (mostly from the US). Case in point, Zimbabwe was exporting food until Mugabe decided to take the lands from white farmers and handed them out to his cronies. The result? Famine. Until and unless the governments in Africa are reformed, expect more and more hunger there.

Rob wrote:

Depopulation would solve a lot of these problems.

Yes, it would. And the longer we go trying to artificially prop up the world's population numbers, the worse that the fall will be.

We can try to export all the food in the world to Africa, and their population can keep rising instead of slowly declining... and when oil gets expensive enough, the food will stop and disaster will strike. Good luck with that.

Africa's problem was that the dictators drove off or massacred the white farmers who had grown surpluses through proper management of the land in advanced irrigation practices. Then they turned the farms over to people with no farming knowledge. Without irrigation, the land turned to dust and now, instead of having stores bulging with crops, the people are starving.

The real problem is that the local ecosystem will not support the number of people living there. How about more education and family planning to establish a balance between population and local environment?? The Earth does not have unlimited supplies for endless numbers of people.

Joe wrote:

Keep treating gentically engineered crops like Frankenstein and suffer the consequences - starvation!

And the long term consequences of bio-engineered crops is? None of us knows (perhaps it breaks the biological recycling systems already in place). Corporations just push it and hope for the best profits. Life is getting too easy and people cannot seem to look 20 years in the future. Weeeeeeee.