World Food Crisis?

Is there a world food crisis looming?

I got a gut feeling that it is... (sadly).

We can see the resonances everywhere.. Here in Australia - the rivers are disappearing, Govt buying back water-rights (given to big farmers), Food production coming down and the food prices skyrocketing.

The same is the case at my home state - Kerala (India). They have abandoned agriculture decades back (Thanks to Commies.. for their cruel unionism). They were depending on the rice from the neighboring states - esp, Tamilnadu and Andra. But due to climate change effects - their food productiton gone down and they reduced supply to Kerala. Result: food prices (esp, rice price) are skyrocketing.

These are only examples. We can hear stories from around the world - Africa, Latin America and Asia. The Western and European countries are only complaining about the escalating food prices. They don't have a crisis yet, coz, they can afford it!

I think, things are going to be worse in the coming years. A cumulative effect of climate change, continued emission of green house gases in the developed nations (along with the emerging developing world), the scarcity of fossil fuels (A recent TV debate argued that the petrol prices are set to triple or at least double within 3 years and I think is only a reasonable guess), the developing food crisis (and may be of fresh water, in the near future) may create a far more difficult world for us to live in.

It may not be as pleasant as WE lived to-date, I fear. Let my fears never be a reality. I pray that all my observations go wrong!

40 years with Petrol... After that?

Here is a small report from one of the July 07 editions of Time Magazine.

The report goes like this:

Every year BP (British Petroleum) produces a report about the status of world fossil fuel reserves. This year's report suggest that we (Earth!) have more petroleum reserves than we have thought in the past. extensive graphs are shown to corroborate the facts. Quite obviously, the largest reserves are in the middle east. U can see the skyscrapers in the picture (its inverted though). They represent the middle east petrol reserves.

Here is the tail piece. All these reserves will be enough to support the Earth's requests at the current rate for another 40 years.....

40 years...

so after 40 years?

no need to go after more reasons to know the interest of some PEOPLE in the middle east... the war, Iraq, civil war....

keep guessing... curious to know your reflections too...