At the end of any day, you can choose to NOT drive to work, not to work at all for that matter...sure it would be difficult, maybe unpleasant, and cause hardship.
But IMAGINE, if you will, not having food. Numbers vary, but somewhere around 1 billion (BILLION - 9 zeroes) people struggle with STARVATION Daily!
Hard to imagine for most in the western world (I said most...but not all).
Some people make plans for energy security...but at the end of the day...FOOD SECURITY(along with water) TRUMPS ALL!
In Today's news - The global food crisis is in full swing (and not likely to improve in the near future).
India Finds U.S. at Fault in Food Cost
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/business/worldbusiness/14food.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin
Instead of blaming India and other developing nations for the rise in food prices, Americans should rethink their energy policy — and go on a diet.
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The debate has sometimes devolved into what sounded like petty playground taunts over who are the real gluttons devouring the world’s resources.
And so the story goes - who blames who, etc. The point is that we have a shortage of food. Monsanto and the other GMO brethren are glad to sell super seeds and further contaminate our world with misquided genetic engineering aimed at producing food without any side effects. They have a tough challenge...the world is losing about 1% of its arable land per year to development, top soil loss and soon sea level rise.
So the thought for the day is "Food security"...think about where your food comes from not just from a local impact perspective, but also guarantee of supply.
Or don't...more for me.
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