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Headlines : EnvironmentPeak Food & Peak Water
The pace quickens. The signs are more numerous. We need even more than food security; we need food sovereignty. Who controls your food? Growing at least part of one’s own food—and having something to trade—will be essential to survival.
Beyond food reclamation & redistribution (aka activities such as dumpster diving and Food Not Bombs), we must begin to rewild the urban environment through active forms of resistance such as guerrilla gardening and community, shared harvest gardens.
Food Sovereignty Now!
[Posted By ShiftShapers]Republished from CounterCurrents
Peak Oil theorists such as Richard Heinberg, James Howard Kunstler, Matthew Simmons, and others turn out to be correct. Petroleum supplies are declining as demand increases. This unfolding trend will radically change human habitation on the Earth. Among the consequences will be the drastic reduction of food and fresh water available to people, not only in poorer parts of the globe, but throughout the planet.
Industrial societies with their industrial agriculture are dependent upon fossil fuels such as petroleum, natural gas, and coal for many things, including transportation, electricity, and making plastics and other modern essentials. Oil is the main ingredient in conventional food. As the supply of petroleum and other fossil fuels decline Peak Water and Peak Food will follow. In recent months we have seen the return of food riots in the Caribbean, Asia, and Africa.
In April food prices in the United States saw their biggest jump in 18 years, according to the Labor Department. Prices are up an average of 41% from last year for commodities such as corn and cotton. Fertilizer prices are up a dramatic 65% from a year ago.
“Saving Water: From Field to Fork” 1/ titles a new study reported in the article “Food Security…
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I heard it predicted back in the 80’s that food and water would be used to sway peoples actions, votes, motivations, etc,..
Three days without water and food (notice that I wrote water 1st) and you will “break on through to the other side” for sure.
we will be forced to change our ways. large nation states like the us, china, and india will be unable to hold center in the burgeoning new world. we are entering the age of the small and adaptable nation. superpowers are like dinosaurs consuming massive amounts of resources…when those resources are not available…welll there will be no more dinosaurs.
Is Water Becoming the New Oil? Mark Clayton, for The Christian Science Monitor, reports, “‘Water,’ Dow Chemical Chairman Andrew Liveris told the World Economic Forum in February, ‘is the oil of this century.’ Developed nations have taken cheap, abundant fresh water largely for granted. Now global population growth, pollution, and climate change are shaping a new view of water as ‘blue gold.‘”
Spain is facing water crisis and desertification