Posted by
Prysson on Friday, April 25, 2008 11:31:39 AM
I am reading more and more about the growing food supply problem.
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All I can say is...we can blame global warming.
Or perhaps I am not being specific enough...
I should say we can blame the liberals who foisted Global Warming nonsense onto us.
The disasterous drive towards biofuels and "alternative energy sources" is directly responsible for what amount to a disasterous alteration in the food commodities markets.
This is a prime example of the law of unintended consequences and exemplifies why foolish social engineering programs are a BAD IDEA.
What on earth did these fools think was going to happen when they turned corn into a gold mine. Now that we are buring some 28% of our corn supply the price of corn has gone upsome 300% in the last 3 years. It doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure out that with corn going through the roof in value farmers will be planting more corn and less of other needed crop staples...which guess what...leads to shortages of the other staples and rising prices in those areas as well.
But of course it gets worse then just expensive corn. All of a sudden milk, cereal, eggs, beef...my god its all going up in prices 20-30%.
Well no kidding its going up you brainiacs...what do chickens eat? CORN. Ever heard of CORN FED BEEF!?!?!
This is maddening. Its particularly disgusting since there is no shortage of oil. And then you read a
story like this and you realize that its all just a hoax. It's a lie perpetrated on society by a bunch of neo marxists looking for some way to break capitaliism by destroying the engine that fuels it..ENERGY.
The sheer lunacy of the entire environmentalist position is just mind boggling. Even more disconcerting is the ease with which people are suckered into buying the argument.
Think about what they are saying. At its very root its utter silliness. That we need to be alarmed because the temperature is changing.
Over the course of this planets existence there have been ice ages that lasted for thousands of centuries with only very brief by comparison periods of interglacial warming trends...during which life thrives I might add...before slipping back into an abyss of ice and cold. And we are suppose to be wringing our hands because over a hand picked time frame of twenty years the temperature of the planet has on avergae gone up 1 degree celcius.
It should be noted that the twenty year average was wiped out by last years precipitous temperature decline as globally temperatures set record lows not seen in a century. So that in a very real sense there hasnt even been ANY GLOBAL WARMING.
Consider the silliness of suggesting that the sun isnt primarily responsible for the planets temperature. The sheer physical fact of the earth tilting toward or away from the sun is enough to give us winter and summer with temperature swings spaning more than a hundred degrees and yet theenviro kooks would have people believe that its people not the sun that impact the surface temperature of the planet.
No its not that nuclear reactor in the center of the solar system 9 times the size of earth that is heating the planet..you and your ford pickup truck are to blame.
One thing is certain folks if that fellow is right and we are headed into an ice age no amount of bio energy sources will stop it so lets stop buring our food are start eating it...and while we wait for the next ice age lets use the oil that we have plenty of.