The Perfect Storm: Heading towards a World Wide Food Crisis.

Peter: Sorry, man. Time to check into the Reality Hotel.

In about 40 years, we will have one-third more people than the total number on the planet right now. Total world population is about six billion. By 2050, about NINE billion.

Food crisis today? You haven't seen anything yet. This is just the first inning of a doubleheader game.

The film "Soyant Green" springs to mind, here.

How can this cycle be broken?

First and foremost people have to become aware of Psychopathy, ponerology and their implications: Those at the top don't care about starving children, they don't care because they cannot. They have a very specific psychological deviation that nulls their conscience. They have no empathy, no remorse, no ability to feel guilt or responsibility. These are the 'people' that run the world today, and they look at most of us as cattle, nothing more.

The reason they rise to the top is because they are willing to do anything to get there. In hierarchical systems they excel at hiding their deviation and slowly manipulating normal people until their pathology is effectively cloaked behind a 'mask of sanity'.

The reality is it is what it is.

This topic has been written, seeded and discussed several times before on Newsvine.

In certain areas of the world, proper irrigation and flood control is not possible because of governmental corruption and interference.

Poor, if any, long term food, water, land/soil, usage plans production are not available in many countries.

When any planning conferences takes place, people have their agendas and are unwilling to coordinate or cooperate with others to achieve what is best in the long term for all.

Keep in mind the newest fad for mass production of Bio-fuels....we will have fuel but we will starve. We will use our water to excess to produce our food, but at least we can drive to the store to pay increased food costs..

I predict that regional areas of the United States, within 3-4 years (if even that long long) there will be mass riots over lack of water, food affordability, heating costs, power availability, etc, etc......

As the raw material cost rise (especially fuel and feed), the costs will be passed on to the consumer, and we will take the huge hit.

Wages cannot keep up, and wages won't keep up.

This all does not bode well, technology can make up some of the deficit, but not all.

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If you subscribe to the Peak Oil theory that we have passed our peak and cannot increase production, then the agriculture business, that relies so heavily upon petro-chemicals for fertilizers and pesticides, will not be able to maintain world food production even at its present levels. The ultimate result will be a massive die-off of the earth's population, not just hunger related illnesses.

Just suppose we get to some point where producing food becomes more important than producing military weapons. We have been at war since the beginning of time and guess what? It has solved nothing. Two countries loaded with intelligent people, India and Japan, have formed a Global Partnership to share science, technology and person to person contact. This is in its 7th year and seems like a model for advancing peaceful corporation. Must we always think "enemy" rather than consolidating our intelligence so we can all live a better life on the same earth.

Hunger is connected to a strong drive for survival. Security or who is the best country in the world will have litte "zest" in the human conscience if the stomach growls for food. Americans use 25% of the world's resources and much of it is waste. Affluency is nice but cycles according to our wit and honesty in handling resources. Thus, with arrogance, mindless spending, the want for more, more, more has us looking at limitations. Self-restraint is not a limitation to freedom - it is imperative to sustain.