If you think you are hungry now......

Drill Baby Drill!

So we kept burning fossil fuels and fueled wars without end...in order to kill off most of our species?

I think they believe they are going to space and leaving us behind. If so, get going so we can see if we can fix the colossal mess you made!

mere non-wealthy humans need sustenance. Cuz Jesus.

These areas have been subject to this type of crisis for centuries. And I am talking about Asia and Africa.

And what really breaks my heart is that we sent them corporations to enslave them instead of food and help to set up small farming that would work in their area. We let churches try to set up fresh water situations for villages when we know that NO church has enough money to carry out the mission. We experiment with their lives as if they do not matter.

And unfortunately I don't think that half the countries that could help even care. Especially now when we have many even here on DU telling us we are overpopulated. What do these people suggest we do with the living? Or are we doing it? Ignoring the crisis.

My family supports one young man in Tanzania and a little girl in Kenya. Even we are not doing enough.

What are we going to do about this mess?

If you were in the business of farming, how could you ever hope to compete against free bags of grain with "USA" stamped on the side?

Anyhow, most famines in Africa never had anything to do with a lack of food. There's plenty of food rotting away somewhere, guarded by well-fed men holding Kalashnikovs.

took over the land and moved the ex-farmers into the cities so that the land could be used to create export crops that were used to pay off the IMF and World Banks the food was needed. Those ex-farmers used to feed their own families on that land now they no longer could.

There is more to it than bags of food marked USA - the corporations came in first. They displaced those farmers you are talking about. Once this happened the game was over.

Farming was corporate farms (growing crops for export) like in the USA - in fact the same thing happened to us in the 40s with the move to California for a good job meme and the agricultural departments idea of "bigger, better and more" logo. Farms here in the USA went from small farms to huge farms. And all the excess labor on those small farms moved to CA.

It worked for us because we also were building a huge manufacturing base post WWII - we did get better jobs. We also were more often growing to feed out own people not for export. But in Africa that was not the way it worked. So now the food items they grow on corporate owned farms get exported not fed to the people.

I am not in favor of sending those bags of food marked USA unless it is a true crisis. I would much rather see more people owning their own farms and supporting their own families like we did here in the early years of this country. Being in control of their own lives.

later after removing food stamps and welfare benefits from poor American Children in the mid 1990's by Federal Acts.

https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?hspart=adk&hsimp=yhs-adk_sbnt&p=The+Modernization+and+Commodities+Acts&type=appfocus5_we_cr¶m1=20160517¶m2=a4338972-d282-4c40-bf8a-4e729534a10c¶m3=weather_appfocus5_1.5~US~appfocus5¶m4=googledisplay~chrome

Despite GMOs, deadly pesticides, chemical fertilizers and corporate seed monopolies, modern agriculture is unable to feed the human race. Maybe we should change what we are doing.

In any system if you keep adding more and more people in a system with finite resources like food you will have problems, get the people production under control by improving the usage contraceptives and things will improve in time and stabilize but keep adding more and more people to the system and things will just snowball down hill.

It is and has always been due to the excesses of the west since time immemorial. Now is due to the failure to rein in its selfish world affecting greed where the whole planet has to suffer. The rest of the world actually has lived in a balance with nature comparatively. The planet can sustain many more people as long as they don't live in excess as the west does now.

and the facts in this case is that africa has a population issue and unless they and other areas with excessively large populations take steps to reign it in things are only going to get worse over the next few decades because there is a finite amount of food that can be produced worldwide.

Divisional Commissioner Umakant Dhangat has his own take on the continuing suicides of farmers in Marathwada. “My assessment says that expectations, especially from family members, are rising high which are putting undue pressure on the farmer. What is making life difficult for farmers is the fact that the farm yield has been going down by the day and the farmer is not able to meet the demands of the situation, forcing him to take the extreme step of ending his life out of feeling guilt…” he told The Indian Express last week.

Senior government officials however said the farming scenario in Marathwada would change in near future as the government has roped in Israeli technology to infuse life in the farms in drought-hit regions of Marathwada and Vidarbha. “Osmanabad in Marathwada has been selected to implement the Jethro technology of Israel. The Jethro technology had helped farms in drought-hit parts of Israel to revive the farms. And we hope to replicate the same in Maharashtra,” an official in Chief Minister’s Office said.

http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/farmer-suicide-toll-crosses-200-mark-in-marathwada-collective-toll-over-1300-in-15-months/

acres of lawns that used to feed people.

and the lots are sooooo big and the population so spread out, mass transit is for other folks.
and lets not even talk about utilities like internet fiber.....how many connection can you sell in a city block vs a mile of county subdivision....

i could go on but it is too nice out for a rant