Capt Bringdown
08-07-2012, 08:27 PM
The Hunger Wars in Our Future
Heat, Drought, Rising Food Costs, and Global Unrest (http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175579/)
At this point, the focus is understandably on the immediate consequences of the still ongoing Great Drought: dying crops, shrunken harvests, and rising food prices. But keep an eye out for the social and political effects that undoubtedly won’t begin to show up here or globally until later this year or 2013. Better than any academic study, these will offer us a hint of what we can expect in the coming decades from a hunger-games world of rising temperatures, persistent droughts, recurring food shortages, and billions of famished, desperate people.
-- more -->> (http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175579/)
Heat, Drought, Rising Food Costs, and Global Unrest (http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175579/)
At this point, the focus is understandably on the immediate consequences of the still ongoing Great Drought: dying crops, shrunken harvests, and rising food prices. But keep an eye out for the social and political effects that undoubtedly won’t begin to show up here or globally until later this year or 2013. Better than any academic study, these will offer us a hint of what we can expect in the coming decades from a hunger-games world of rising temperatures, persistent droughts, recurring food shortages, and billions of famished, desperate people.
-- more -->> (http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175579/)