If extreme weather becomes the norm, starvation awaits

The Guardian by George Monbiot | Oct. 16, 2012 (News Analysis)
With forecasts currently based only on averages, food production may splutter out even sooner than we feared

I believe we might have made a mistake: a mistake whose consequences, if I am right, would be hard to overstate. I think the forecasts for world food production could be entirely wrong. Full Story »

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Sirajul Islam
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 by Sirajul Islam - Oct. 17, 2012

Good story by George Monbiot on the global food production and usage scenario, and the impacts it will have on global population. The story that quoted many studies and experts' opinion, is highly informative, enterprising and insightful.

I have a bad feeling that food will soon become the new oil. Prices will rocket, wars will be fought over it, and the weakest will perish. The solution? I honestly don't know, neither, I suspect, does anybody.

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