The Coming Food Catastrophe
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The Coming Food Catastrophe
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#2Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/hobUN
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#3Sounds like there's a big potential for upheavals similar to the Arab Spring. A fair number of countries subsidize food for their citizens, and if they can't get their hands on any, there's going to be issues.
I wonder which countries are most at risk? I read somewhere that the Arab countries get a lot of Ukrainian wheat.
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#4We should stop growing corn for ethanol since it's worse for the climate than gasoline[1] and instead use all that land and machinery to grow wheat instead.
1. https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/us-corn-based-e...
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#5Might also be worth examining the amount of crop grown, then subsequently burned in the U.S. Somewhere between 25% to 40% of corn in the U.S., up to 20% of agriculture land is devoted to ethanol production. If food production is a growing concern, it seems strange that so much agricultural production is spent on non-food producing activities.
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#7Article photo is pretty badass.
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#8It is clear that Putin needs to go. By any means necessary.
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#9We should stop growing corn for ethanol since it's worse for the climate than gasoline[1] and instead use all that land and machinery to grow wheat instead. 1. https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/us-corn-based-e...
Won't happen unless the fear of food shortage becomes an actual food shortage.
Ethanol subsidies let farmers already invested in corn grow more corn than they might otherwise sell for food, and politicians get to say they're doing something for renewable energy.
As with so many other things in politics, the good of society isn't the driving factor. Money and talking points are king.
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