Global Food Crisis.

[ivi0nk3y]

Originally Posted by TheJapanChannel

This must be the most polite forum i have ever read!!
Is everyone here always like this?
or do they delete the usual rude forum trolls?

I'm rude to annoying people
But yea the threads usually get deleted if they are of a stupid nature or have become a war zone.

[Hip]

Originally Posted by Tenchu

In Hong Kong there is 16,500 people per square kilometer. That is 1.65 people per meter (they live in massive high rise apartments).

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/191/5...2d094ff8_o.jpg

It goes without saying, the world is over populated, and shows no sign of population slowing.

Food cost is rising and the impact falls mostly on the poor.

Clearing forests for new farming land has extended enviromental impact, and is unsustainable as a solution. Simply, we are running out of forests.

Somethings gotta give, what will it be?

O.o I dont know what that's all about but I read somewhere that in China you are legally only suppose to have one son or daughter(right now) due to the fear of overpopulating the country any more than it currently is.

And because of this "law" it left many families upset and fleeing the country after that huge earthquare which killed thousandsssssss of people. Half of which were children of those single family homes..Which ultimately left those families childless and heartbroken.

Hm well.. China already have their rules against over child bearing. I doubt learning to adopt will help anymore in that place.

Exactly

[Hisuwashi]

Originally Posted by EveV

Learning to adopt and being a little more green friendly.


Also, there's plenty of land on earth that's not forest and it's perfect for farming.
Being friendly with countries that have such supply wouldn't hurt them.
It's amazing all the untouched real estate land you see when you drive around here.
It could easily be given up and used for more useful things, other then new malls.

Actually it would be very difficult to attempt any agriculture on that land.

[chenli]

Encourage adoption over child bearing, reduce meat consumption, blah blah blah.

[Nathan]

Originally Posted by Hisuwashi

Actually it would be very difficult to attempt any agriculture on that land.

Yeah, a lot of the so-called available land is infertile or unsuitable for cultivation. Take the Canadian Shield for example

[EveV]

Originally Posted by Nathan

Yeah, a lot of the so-called available land is infertile or unsuitable for cultivation. Take the Canadian Shield for example

I'm talking about the south which is completely different.
I've watched this place go from forest, to country, to city.
They build house after house store after store.
This land could be used for farming and theres TONS of it.
I know this for a fact because many people here bought themselves a few acres and use it for their private gardens. Full of tons of healthy fruits and vegetables.

You people have really lost your sense of size if you can't see that.


If we all put down our barriers and stopped saying " This land is mine" and actually attempted to take care of one another then China would have no worries butttt that's very unlikely to happen.

[Cyasarin]

I think it's all up to nature. If people are meant to stay here, they'll find a way. Human's are intelligent whether you know anyone who is or not. If we're not meant to, then we'll just die. I believe in the whole "there's a reason for everything" idea. If humans aren't needed on the planet anymore, we'll go extinct. Maybe it's better for the environment if the human population is decreased.

[ivi0nk3y]

Originally Posted by EveV

I'm talking about the south which is completely different.
I've watched this place go from forest, to country, to city.
They build house after house store after store.
This land could be used for farming and theres TONS of it.
I know this for a fact because many people here bought themselves a few acres and use it for their private gardens. Full of tons of healthy fruits and vegetables.

You people have really lost your sense of size if you can't see that.


If we all put down our barriers and stopped saying " This land is mine" and actually attempted to take care of one another then China would have no worries butttt that's very unlikely to happen.

Well its true that people chop down a lot of trees to make way for their own use, especially for the "Rubber" industry.

[Amnell]

Some of the price inflation of food stuffs can be attributed to rising gas prices. The cost of shipping food overseas or by truck has gone up--even supplemented by Ethanol, which is more expensive to refine in the first place and places undue pressure on the corn industry, which in turn pressures dairy, beef/pork/poultry, and pretty much any other industry that has any reliance on corn at all, which further inflates prices.

Best way to help (not 'solve', notice) the problem of food prices is to go down to Saudi Arabia and kick some of those oil-hording butts back into line, if ya ask me >_< . Better yet, allow American companies to drill in Texas and Alaska!

Even better than that, having a "closed circuit" for goods manufacture and disposal would make a lot of things a lot cheaper. I'm talking about recycling. Not that recycling is free... But it should save some money, yeah?

[TalnSG]

Originally Posted by Amnell

Best way to help (not 'solve', notice) the problem of food prices is to go down to Saudi Arabia and kick some of those oil-hording butts back into line, if ya ask me >_< . Better yet, allow American companies to drill in Texas and Alaska!

I don't entirely disagree with you, but let me guess. You don't live in Texas or Alaska, do you? Why don't we drill for oil in Ohio? They have an even larger reserve underneath their land, but successfully killed any drilling as far back as at least the early 1960's.

How about we stopped spiking every food product out of American factories with "High Fructose Corn Syrup". Its not needed, and its slowly killing people with empty calories. Besides it destroyed the flavor of those thing that really benefitted from being made with cane sugar, which we now pay southern farmers not to produce.