primitives trying to inspire food panic

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3505585

Oh my.

robertpaulsen  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Mon Jun-23-08 01:09 PM
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You. Will. Not. Be. Able. To. Get. Food. - report on trends
Written by Jan Lundberg
Culture Change Letter #189, June 20, 2008

The empire of cheap food is crumbling

You. Will. Not. Be. Able. To. Get. Food. Need this be spelled out any more plainly? It is time to consider that the stage has been set for petroleum-induced famine.

We have "innocently" accommodated rising population with greater and greater food production via technology and the profit motive. But now we have run out of room to grow, as biotechnology, for example, has severe limitations -- major ones being petroleum dependence and topsoil loss. The biggest wild card for our existence is climate change, as we see with floods and other extreme weather affecting our food supply.

We are headed for massive shortages of food and other essentials, mainly brought about by the depletion of geological fossil reserves of cheap energy and water. The situation is demonstrated regularly with easy arithmetic based on statistical indicators from the United Nations, Worldwatch Institute, World Resources Institute, Earth Policy Institute, and numerous governments. Usually the full force of the message is offset by predictions of huge rises in future human population growth that are simple extrapolations of historical trends.

No one can say with certainty that the worst effects of today's crisis will occur tomorrow or by any particular date. But it is irrational to assume there will only be gradual tightening of supplies until some solutions miraculously come to our aid. One ought to at least admit that one year ago few people thought we'd be going in the direction we're going in, this fast, today.

http://www.culturechange.org/cms/index.php?option=com_c...

So, is anyone here prepared for this? How big is your stockpile?

Uh, primitives shouldn't stockpile.

During times of food crises in the socialist paradises of the workers and peasants, hoarding food was a capital offense.

Oh man.

I started copying and pasting this before observing the whole bonfire.

This surely has to be one of the largest conflagrations on Skins's island.

Man, this bonfire's big, simply really enormous.

It takes ten minutes to scroll down the whole page, and that's scrolling at high speed.

But the primitives have to remember; during times of food crises in the socialist paradises of the workers and peasants, hoarding food was a capital offense.

And so it's against the party line for the primitives to stockpile; if the primitives are stockpiling food, the primitives are showing themselves to the whole entire world to be base hypocrites.

[USA4ME]

Fear, fear, fear.  Don't they have another platform other than fear and telling others that everyone else except them are trying to use fear to politically motivate people?

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[Lord Undies]

mainly brought about by the depletion of geological fossil reserves of cheap energy and water.

One more lie stated as fact.  How can something be depleted when it is never used?  400 years worth lies untouched.  More is discovered all the time, and remains untouched.

BTW, "fossil" is misapplied.  The earth's oil is as normal, complex, and variable as earth's rocks.  It isn't dead dinosaur juice.    

[DixieBelle]

Did. William. Shatner. Write. That?

Now wait a minute here. They are trying to blame the mother nature's natural patterns on climate change? I'll believe that as soon as they are able to predict with 100% accuracy what the proper climate behavior is supposed to be. Then, you can run around and call floods and whatnot "climate change" if such events are deemed not part of the earth's normal patterns. Morons!

[Happy Fun Ball]

[Uhhuh35]

BTW, "fossil" is misapplied.  The earth's oil is as normal, complex, and variable as earth's rocks.  It isn't dead dinosaur juice.  

A quick cure to rising food costs would be abandonment of the "Bio Fuels" debacle and immediate drilling for more "fossil fuel". But the Dims, who control Congress, are standing in the way.
You think the DUmmies are gonna' blame them anytime soon? Nope, me neither.

[jukin]

Hate to bring reality into the mind of a DUmbass but higher CO2 levels are great for plants.  In fact, NASA released findings that there is more plant life on earth now than twenty years ago.

I hope I can find some hoarding imbecilles in my neck of the woods.  That way I can shoot them and take their stockpiles.

[franksolich]

Yup.  They can hoard all the food they want, I'm hoarding ammo.

Actually, throughout the entire history of mankind, that sort of thing's the best thing one can do.

In a case of massive civil breakdown--such as some sort of terrorist attack on American soil--one doubts the selfish greedy primitives are going to manage to hang on to their stockpiles.

It's human history.

[DixieBelle]

Weren't the DUmmies all upset several weeks ago when some stores rationed how many bags of rice one could buy? I thought I remember a few DUmmies expressing outrage at those who intended on hoarding. I could be mistaken though.

[EastFacingNorth]

Hate to bring reality into the mind of a DUmbass but higher CO2 levels are great for plants.  In fact, NASA released findings that there is more plant life on earth now than twenty years ago.

I hope I can find some hoarding imbecilles in my neck of the woods.  That way I can shoot them and take their stockpiles.

Yup.  They can hoard all the food they want, I'm hoarding ammo.

And if the food situation actually does get desperate (doubtful), well, herbivores generally taste better that carnivores and omnivores, and the vast majority of vegans are leftists.  Commie burgers, anyone? 

[Bondai]

Hate to bring reality into the mind of a DUmbass but higher CO2 levels are great for plants.  In fact, NASA released findings that there is more plant life on earth now than twenty years ago.

I hope I can find some hoarding imbecilles in my neck of the woods.  That way I can shoot them and take their stockpiles.

Yup.  They can hoard all the food they want, I'm hoarding ammo.

Ah yes, ammo...the universally accepted currency during times of need....

[BlueStateSaint]

Hate to bring reality into the mind of a DUmbass but higher CO2 levels are great for plants.  In fact, NASA released findings that there is more plant life on earth now than twenty years ago.

I hope I can find some hoarding imbecilles in my neck of the woods.  That way I can shoot them and take their stockpiles.

Yup.  They can hoard all the food they want, I'm hoarding ammo.

And if the food situation actually does get desperate (doubtful), well, herbivores generally taste better that carnivores and omnivores, and the vast majority of vegans are leftists.  Commie burgers, anyone? 

An untold number of those "vegans" also have abused illegal drugs, thus making them walking, talking toxic waste dumps . . .

[djones520]

This part killed me.

The biggest wild card for our existence is climate change, as we see with floods and other extreme weather affecting our food supply.

[TNO Mode]But weather and climate are not the same thing. [/end TNO Mode]

[EastFacingNorth]

Hate to bring reality into the mind of a DUmbass but higher CO2 levels are great for plants.  In fact, NASA released findings that there is more plant life on earth now than twenty years ago.

I hope I can find some hoarding imbecilles in my neck of the woods.  That way I can shoot them and take their stockpiles.

Yup.  They can hoard all the food they want, I'm hoarding ammo.

And if the food situation actually does get desperate (doubtful), well, herbivores generally taste better that carnivores and omnivores, and the vast majority of vegans are leftists.  Commie burgers, anyone? 

An untold number of those "vegans" also have abused illegal drugs, thus making them walking, talking toxic waste dumps . . .

Meh.  Just don't eat the sweetmeats then, and be sure to trim the fat as much as possible.