After such a glowing post about the bounties in American supermarkets, I feel like I should take it back down to earth, as the coming crisis of feeding the world becomes serious.
Let me introduce you to my buddy Thomas Malthus. Malthus predicted that throughout history food production is cyclical, from agriculture boom to massive famine. When more food is produced, the population of the world jumps, when the food produced can't match the population spurt, there is famine, and the cycle begins anew.
In the beginning of the 20th century, we faced such a trap, yet with the extraordinary work of men like Norman Borlaug, technology prevailed, and the famine was nearly averted. What happened in the wake of this was a world population that jumped by a whopping FOUR BILLION.
FOUR BILLION.
This cannot hold, and the trap will catch us by the neck. What we will be living through may be the greatest famine in the history of Earth. There is no simple way to say it, but there will be starvation not just across the world, but in America too. We will go hungry, and our personal experiences will be of immense suffering.
This is coming at a time where the Earth is warming, environmental degradation is rampant, and governments across the world are closing down with an iron fist... including ours.
The coming decades will be horrifying times for us all. You can bet on it.
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I saw this poem on the blackboard in Park Auditorium today:
jules verne zucchini
Men are walking on the moon today,
planting their footsteps as if they were zucchini on a dead world
while over 3,000,000 peopole starve to death
every year on a living one.
Earth july 20, 1969
and I wanted to just write THOMAS MALTHUS underneath it because... we can be bleeding heart liberals all we want but you know things are supposed to die....
it sounds so horrible saying it even i hate myself.
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