Zardoz wrote: MonteQuest, you may be right about the global population never reaching seven billion.
Remember, folks, this is happening while there's still enough oil being produced to meet demand. And let's not even think about the detrimental crop-production effects of Global Warming.
MonteQuest wrote:70% of Pakistan is under 16 years of age.
47% of all Arab countries are under 15 years of age with population doubling times of 7 to 11 years...
nth wrote:It is not an energy shortage, but water shortage according to the article.
But high prices does mean lower consumption of oil in developing states.
ozkrenske wrote:These two are going to have big problems and one has nukes to threaten people with.
parsifal wrote:I read about the Ogallala depeleting well over ten years ago... people are on the move from their dying countires. PO is a great symbol of eveything coming undone. I place my hand on my heart and say a silent prayer before each meal.
"A days wages for a cup of wheat."
-Book of Revelation
TITAN wrote:nth wrote:It is not an energy shortage, but water shortage according to the article.
But high prices does mean lower consumption of oil in developing states.
When it comes to farming, less oil for producing fertilizer can be dealt with, water shortages is a FAR worse problem.
"For hungry kids, 'backpack clubs' try to fill gap
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"Without this food, I don't know what we would do," says their mother, Karen Lozano. In a town [TYLER, Texas] where the oil boom once created dozens of millionaires and where azaleas and roses now attract tourists, Ms. Lozano, 41, and her two youngest children sit in a living room beneath a bare light bulb dangling from the ceiling.
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Cody and Cherokee are members of the Backpack Club at Douglas Elementary School. Every Friday during the school year, just before the final bell, they and 70 schoolmates from low-income families rush into the auditorium and wait in line for backpacks filled with food. In the past year, thousands of other children have begun forming similar Friday afternoon lines in schools across 30 states, from big cities like Chicago, to postcard places like Sonoma County, Calif., to rural hamlets surrounded by corn and wheat fields like Hawkeye, Iowa.
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The Second Harvest survey also paints a portrait of the hungry at odds with common stereotypes: Only 12 percent of those served by the nation's food banks are homeless; 93 percent are American citizens; 40 percent are white; nearly half live in rural or suburban areas; and, more than one-third of the hungry households have at least one working adult.
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dukey wrote:i dont think we are at peak food production yet
UK has quite a lot of land which farmers are actually paid to do nothing with it. Ie not to grow crops on it, in a bid to stop the massive over production of food which used to happen in europe due to the CAP scheme. I think the same is probably true for the rest of europe.
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