The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has announced that severe drought and brutal civil wars in east Africa have left more than 20 million people in desperate need of emergency food assistance. In its announcement, the FAO was quite blunt in assessing what is happening in the region: "The situation is very worrying due to expected crop and pasture failures from poor rains in several areas, the increase in conflicts, trade disruptions and continuing high food prices." The truth is that most people in the western world have no concept what is going on over in east Africa. The picture at the top of this article is of a bulldozer pushing a pile of cows that have died due to the severe drought in the region. There are severe shortages of both food and water. Survival is a daily question for millions. It really does seem like the end of the world. But the reality is that serious food shortages are about to become a problem for the rest of the globe as well.
Devastating droughts in India, China, Argentina, Australia, Texas and California are crippling harvests across the globe, and the prospect of an unprecedented food crisis is very real. The truth is that the world food supply was just barely able to feed the world during good harvest years. Now that the world has been hit by a serious of unprecedented droughts, it is becoming clearer by the day that there is simply not going to be enough food for everyone in 2010.
As technologically advanced as mankind is, the reality is that without rain crops fail. If crops fail on a large scale, there will not be enough food for everyone to eat. Things are getting really bad out there.....
-Droughts across southern China have absolutely devastated crops and brought water levels in reservoirs and rivers to a historic low.
-India has announced that it has suffered its worst drought in 37 years, absolutely devastating the 65 percent of India's farms that are unirrigated.
-The persistent drought affecting approximately 90 percent of Argentina has slain cattle in the hundreds of thousands and caused massive forest fires.
-The drought in Australia has gotten so extreme that it is being called the new "dust bowl". A recent dust storm in Sydney was so severe that it actually turned the sky red and made headlines around the globe.
-In Texas, farmers and ranchers have been desperately hoping for more rain as the ongoing drought has cost the agricultural sector billions of dollars.
-The water crisis became so serious in California that Barack Obama actually requested that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger call state lawmakers into a special session just to deal with the situation.
-Saudi Arabia had been producing enough wheat to be totally self-sufficient for over two decades, but back in 2008 they realized that the non-replenishable aquifer they had been pumping for irrigation purposes was nearly depleted. So at that point Saudi Arabian made the decision to reduce their wheat harvest by one-eighth every year moving forward. Wheat production in Saudi Arabia is scheduled to cease entirely in 2016. After 2016 Saudi Arabia plans to import 100 percent of the wheat for their entire nation. But what if the rest of the world does not have any wheat to spare?
As if all of this was not bad enough, now incredibly virulent crop diseases are exploding all over the world. For example, a very serious disease known as "late blight" is absolutely devastating tomato and potato plants in the eastern half of the United States.
In addition, Scientists fear that the Ug99 wheat rust, a horrifying wheat fungus also known as stem rust, could wipe out over 80 percent of the world's wheat crop as it spreads out from the African continent.
A disease that couple wipe out 80 percent of the world's wheat crop?
Why haven't we heard more about this in the news?
Instead the news is filled with fluff about "Jon and Kate", Michael Jackson and David Letterman.
While the world is obsessed with celebrities and politicians, the real problems are not being addressed and we could literally be facing an unprecedented global famine and the end of the world as we know it.
The truth is that the world is running out of food. In decades past the U.S. kept huge amounts of food in reserve, but at this moment the U.S. only has enough wheat in storage to give each person in the United States a half a loaf of bread.
How long do you think you can last on a half a loaf of bread?
Hard times are coming.
It is time to get ready.
It means that we must reduce the human population by humane methods without recourse to war or starvation. On the other hand, if humanity stubbornly persists in overbreeding then we will probably lose one to three billion people in the next ten years.
Perhaps a mumps virus that induces sterility in all affected males would do the trick. It would certainly be better than being fried in wars or dying of nutrient deficiencies such as Kwashiokor or pellagra.
Timothy J. Frohlick said…..
It means that we must reduce the human population by humane methods without recourse to war or starvation. On the other hand, if humanity stubbornly persists in overbreeding then we will probably lose one to three billion people in the next ten years.
my question is… just exactly how do you do that?
do you know how assanine you sound.. the problem is not overbreeding or over population.. the problem is huge government run amok! the United States could feed the whole world! but the government of the United States does not let the farmer perform.. GET GOVERNMENT OUT OF THE WAY. let the free market rule.. Frohlick you are a liberal idiot who does not have a clue.
“Timothy J. Frohlick said on 16-11-2009
It means that we must reduce the human population by humane methods without recourse to war or starvation. On the other hand, if humanity stubbornly persists in overbreeding then we will probably lose one to three billion people in the next ten years.
Perhaps a mumps virus that induces sterility in all affected males would do the trick. It would certainly be better than being fried in wars or dying of nutrient deficiencies such as Kwashiokor or pellagra.”
Tim,
Thanks for you and your family volunteering to lighten the load on Mother Earth by choosing to die. Who’s going to be first in YOUR family? You? The wife? Kids? What about your mom or your day? What “humane” means to you plan to use on the fam, Tim?
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Food emergency in east Africa, and they’re pushing dead cows around with bulldozers…I realize it may be a drop in the bucket, but can’t they be eaten?
I think Tim should start by not eating and starve to death today. There goes the first volunteer!!! I don’t think so, he first thought about exterminating others.
This kind of thinking from Tim is what some polititians in high places have and dictate on defenseless humans. Cowards!!!
dear sierra and mw robinson, you misunderstand poor mr. frohlick, he must continue to live because he is so much more enlightened than us commoners
US farmers are PAID by the goverment to NOT plant all the acreage they are capable of. That’s a FACT. The US could easily feed the world. We defend the world. Might as well feed it too.
The problem isn’t children about to be born, it is feeding the humans currently sucking air on the big blue marble. We are already overpopulated.
Those cattle by the way are inedible because they died of dehydration and bloated (rotted) in the sun.
Weather patterns are shifting. The equipment and seed to grow things that can be grown in any given region of the world are now misplaced.
Ask any farmer what bad weather is and they will tell you “any weather that keeps me from getting my crops up”. Too wet, too warm, too cool, too dry, or just too badly timed.
Hmm . . . but if we kill all those people (after magnanimously showing the flag by dying ourselves, first, of course), think of all the CO2 that will be released into the atmosphere as their bodies decompose. Or are we supposed to eat them? How silly of me! Waste all that good nutrition, with a famine looming? And why bother with a mumps vaccine? Why not just manufacture a really good designer virus? I think that would be more efficient.
Yes, all that stuff is about to happen. Maybe not all of it will happen right away, but it’s been prophesied for millenia, and it’s not all that far in the future. God is right to judge this planet, and no matter how many disposable people we kill, we will only make matters worse by not caring for one another instead.
Just a note . . . my first paragraph above is intended as sarcasm–sometimes people actually take me seriously.
everyone should be planting a garden instead of flowers and grass.real food that tastes better than grocery garbage turn the tv off roll up your sleves and get startedall you need is a sunny plot and collect rain water or use waste water .the women are gaining weight because they get sitting watching soaps and are slaves to their hair and clothes.better wake up hunger is real.
This is all engineered by the global elite and technology called HAARP. There is no such thing as overpopulation. The eugenists have made this up. Global warming is made up. The population by the elites has to be reduced to 500 million. They will used all they tools necessary to accomplish this, vaccines, chemtrails, poisoning the water, etc. and fake climate change issues. Don’t forget wars, and depleted uranium, GMO Foods, and seeds of destruction. All this is in the book of Revelation.
I live in Texas and i can tell you that there is no drought except maybe in the most southern part of the state. I don’t think that area produces much anyway. Although there isn’t a drought here, i have personally seen farmers plow under hundreds of acres of winter wheat and other crops in the past 3 years near where i live. Thats the source of the problem.
It is interesting how the truly moronic respond when trouble is at hand. Panic and misinformation coupled with slander is always their modus operandi.
Mumps does not cause sterility in most of its victims.
I had mumps when I was a kid. I chose to not have children because of the dire straights we are in.
I have seen many useless eaters mindlessly procreating. Their time is coming.
It is too bad that they choose the hard way instead of the rational way to control overpopulation.
TJ
Hi Tim,
A good start would be to cull the greediest 5% that use 25% of the resources,
Anton,
Without the greedy Americans, who would buy the Chinese, Asian and European products?
The present use of land is limited by soil alkalization,soil depletion and drought. There really is very little agricultural land remaining. In addition, the formerly rural areas are being converted into residential neighborhoods that preclude efficient farming.
In simple language, there are too damned many people in the world. Religions such as Islam need to deflate their overpopulating doctrines and faulty schemes of conquest.
TJ
No… what we need is a 2000 calorie a day birth control pill. Stop famine and overpopulation at the same time.