The cruelty of the religion of Global Warming
From WorldNetDaily...
The [World Food Program] launched a public appeal weeks ago because the price of the food it buys to feed some of the world's poorest people had risen by 55 percent since last June. By the time the appeal began last week, prices had risen a further 20 percent. That means WFP needs $700 million to bridge the gap between last year's budget and this year's prices. The numbers are expected to continue to rise.
The crisis is widespread and the result of numerous causes – a kind of "perfect storm" leading to panic in many places:
- In Thailand, farmers are sleeping in their fields because thieves are stealing rice, now worth $600 a ton, right out of the paddies.
- Four people were killed in Egypt in riots over subsidized flour that was being sold for profit on the black market.
- There have been food riots in Morocco, Senegal and Cameroon.
- Mexico's government is considering lifting a ban on genetically modified crops, to allow its farmers to compete with the United States.
- Argentina, Kazakhstan and China have imposed restrictions to limit grain exports and keep more of their food at home.
- Vietnam and India, both major rice exporters, have announced further restrictions on overseas sales.
- Violent food protests hit Burkina Faso in February.
- Protesters rallied in Indonesia recently, and media reported deaths by starvation.
- In the Philippines, fast-food chains were urged to cut rice portions to counter a surge in prices.
- Millions of people in India face starvation after a plague of rats overruns a region, as they do cyclically every 50 years.
- Officials in Bangladesh warn of an emerging "silent famine" that threatens to ravage the region.
According to some experts, the worst damage is being done by government mandates and subsidies for "biofuels" that supposedly reduce carbon dioxide emissions and fight climate change. Thirty percent of this year's U.S. grain harvest will go to ethanol distilleries. The European Union, meanwhile, has set a goal of 10 percent bio-fuels for all transportation needs by 2010.
"A huge amount of the world's farmland is being diverted to feed cars, not people," writes Gwynne Dyer, a London-based independent journalist.
This would be the same biofuels that have been proven to be even more polluting than fossil fuels. Since we know environmentalists bemoan the "Human Plague" that infests earth and yearn for a smaller population, could this starvation of many parts of the world have been an intentional, and desired outcome?
Posted by Danny Carlton at April 2, 2008 6:42 AM