Friday, August 10, 2012

Grain-price surge sparks fears of global food crisis

To make more sense of the urgency of this problem it is likely important to remember a similar drought in Australia in 2006 which I now believe was the actual trigger for the now Global recession. When the World then because of the very serious Australian drought went from 130 to 100 percent of it's needs regarding grains of all kinds, it triggered a food panic and prices that were too expensive for much of the world's poor to afford to live. When any people are already spending 90% to 100% of their incomes for food this kind of thing begins to happen worldwide. In fact, one of the major triggers for the Arab Spring was because of people under age 30 in most of the Arab world not having enough money for food and because of this unable to get married and to start a family that could economically be supported. We are approaching another world crisis because of the same thing now happening in the U.S. that happened in Australia in 2006. 

One might think that 100% of the needs of the world would be enough but because of the locations of the 100% it is not enough because then in order to ship the food to where it is actually needed it becomes even more expensive and counterproductive economically. So, then all that is left is donations of food to poor areas on earth. So, the end result likely this time also will be more people starving to death worldwide. Because of global Warming and global climate change it might be important to expect larger and larger die-offs of world populations from starvation. Because if we are in Global Warming and Global Climate change the amount of people that can be sustained will inevitably be drastically reduced by the decade during these changes as people migrate towards the poles to sustain themselves during these times.

Grain-price surge sparks fears of global food crisis

Please click on above word button starting with  "Grain-price" above to read full article on this growing problem that likely will affect worldwide grain prices.


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