WORLDWIDE POLITICIANS FIDDLE WHILE THE FOOD SUPPLY DWINDLES

Gynne Dyer has written a World Affairs column in the Woolwich Observer titled "Today we're all sitting around like frogs in a pot". This is a very intense, fact filled analysis of the direction the world's food supply is going and it's not a pretty picture. Both droughts and greater heat are predicted to substantially decrease the long term food output throughout the world, both developed and undeveloped. Governments have all been involved in short term thinking with short term goals and been ignoring this looming food crisis. What is even more chilling is the alleged attitudes of the richer countries. As food production plummets they feel that their wealth will buy them the food they need while their military can keep third world refugees or armies at bay. It kind of makes a joke about so called humanitarian reasons for large immigration here in Canada for example. That has always been nonsense but when things get really bad Canada will join her southern big brother in isolating North America from Africa and parts of Asia such as China and India. This kind of reminds me of the British cheerfully buying up what little food the Irish produced while the poorer Irish literally starved to death during the Potatoe fanmine in the 1800's.

This is a bleak scenario and also indicates further hypocrisy as many countries try to reduce the level of private ownership of firearms by their citizens while they themselves are arming to the teeth. Canada's military thank you very much have been expanding nicely under many years of Conservative government.