Now, Global Warming = Food Crisis (This Time from the UN)
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In a recent article on this website, I said how it was inevitable how someone somewhere would try and make the argument that if we don’t “save the planet” by reducing CO2 the entire world would starve:
What we will likely see over the next 6-18 months are headlines shouting about starvation in Africa or governments being overthrown as their populations seek enough food to sustain themselves. We will hear entreaties by Liberals that the U.S. is a greedy country using too many of the world’s resources and all of this lack-of-food is caused by “global warming” so we should transfer our wealth to poorer nations to be “compasionate.”
Opening up the Financial Times I saw this this point being made:
The world cannot achieve food security without first tackling global warming, the United Nations secretary-general said yesterday, warning that failure at next month’s international climate change negotiations would result in a further rise in hunger.
The warning by Ban Ki-Moon at the start of a three-day UN world food summit in Rome came one day after Barack Obama, US president, backed European and UN views that the Copenhagen summit would not produce a legally binding agreement to tackle global warming.
Liberals really are so predictable aren’t they? With fewer and fewer Americans buying the man-made “global warming” lie and the Copenhagen agreement to cut CO2 emissions in the dumpster for another year, alarmists will say anything they can in order to manipulate people into taxing themselves to death for the sake of reducing man’s 0.117% contribution towards CO2 to something slightly smaller.
Interestingly enough we have a different guy at the UN addressing the same problem but with a different set of causes:
Jacques Diouf, the director-general of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), believes that the world is not doing enough to avert another food crisis. His warning comes as leaders gather in Rome today for the World Food Summit.
“When the recovery picks up, we will be back to square one,” Mr Diouf told the Financial Times in an interview.
He said the same structural problems behind last year’s spike in food prices were still affecting the market. These included lack of investment, surging demand in Asia and diversion of food commodities into biofuels.
Isn’t that just too funny! Of course, what will make the headlines will be “global warming” and “food crisis” because the images of the polar bears and SUVs are so much more “compelling.”
Excluding all of the structural problem stuff like lack of investment, etc… we can add to that list bloated, corrupt, often un-democratic governments. When we look around the world at where the least desirable places to live are (lowest GDP/GNP, shortest life expectancy, most under-nourished people, etc… we will almost always find that those countries are run by corrupt dictators, have little-to-no competitive private industries, and economies that are not market based.
Of course, these inconvenient truths are something Liberals would not want to be widely known because it would remove yet another pillar from their “global warming” temple.
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09:53
Those corrupt governments are often pro-US business interests, so United States keeps those dictators in power.
You want to read something interesting? http://chomsky.info/articles/200909–.htm
Thats a very long, but very good read. Chomsky talks about Haiti, which is suffering a food crisis a few paragraphs in.
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10:02
You mean all those corrupt governments that the U.S. (but not Europe or Russia) has trade embargos against?
11:08
We’re just as hypocritical in our foreign policy as russia and europe. We have interviews of Afghani civilians who allege that the US backed government in Afghanistan is as bad as the Taliban in its abuses and corruption. Actually, the Taliban were better because they at might have enforced a very strict code of justice, but at least they adhered to some code.
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12:03
Hmm… if you call keeping women uneducated and illiterate, beheading people at soccer stadiums for petter crimes, banning radios and television, and forcing all men to grow beards “better” then I’d have to ask what you are comparing it to.
Corruption is a problem in Afghanistan and the recent fraud in the presidential elections is very troubling however to lay the blame for this on the U.S. and then to suggest the Taliban is “better” is going too far for me.
14:59
That’s the thing, the government that there is now does the same exact thing. It’s the drug lords who are the elected officials.
I’m saying that there has been absolutely no change for the population, its just a couple US backed politicians who have profited at all in Afghanistan.
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15:21
In the outskirts of the country you are right because the Taliban still controls those areas however you only need to look at what happened in the Swat area of Pakistan that the Taliban took over to see that life is not better under their yoke.