Food Crisis? A Simple Solution!
There has been plenty of talk about this food shortage and how the prices of grains, notably rice is going up and how the poor people of the third world (opps, sorry, I forget I’m supposed to be politically correction and say ‘developing nations’) are going to starve to death; at least more so than they do now. There are predictions that millions in these parts of the world will die from starvation.
The collective response from the west seems to be to increase funding for food aid. To get more food to these people. There is one problem with this. No matter how much food and money we give them, it will never be enough because these people will just keep reproducing and inflating the world’s population, which is nearing 6.7 billion.
Praying to some deity isn’t going to solve your problems nor is some mystical rain dance or anything of that sort. Not all land in the world is fertile; nor is all fertile land being used adequately (see: Zimbabwe).
Cutting back on general consumption is one way.
Moving away from biofuels would help. We could move to use electrical cars (ZENN), and better yet, massively increase funding for public transit; do we need ALL that funding to go to the military so we can bomb some dirt pile back to the stone ages?
Maybe instead of converting food into biofuels, we could use it to feed people.
Or… maybe the Dutch could realise that corn is also people food and not just cattle feed.
We could always reduce our consumption of meet by half. Tofu and soy based products as imitation meat can be quite tasteful and they have the same amount of protein found in meat products. The texture can even be mimicked to be similar.
Of course, we could always just make abortion legal world wide; increase funding for contraceptives and introduce comprehensive sexual education that includes family planning so people don’t feel this insatiable urge to fart out another screaming, pooping machine that will be just another mouth to feed. People in general have a greater longevity due to incredible leaps and bounds made in modern medicine.
Stumble It!
