Ahhhhmmm...scuse me...but shouldn't the Gov't be doing something to Prepare? Like FAMINE PREVENTION

[opihimoimoi]

efforts?

Should we up food production ??? Of Course we should...thats the Conservative approach...play it safe...

Growing more food on land is harder these days as we have a top soil/ water prob...

But aquaculture is wide open to exponential expansion...

we should start asap to avoid severe shortages of food.....

[jody]

1. Not to worry, we can always keep borrowing money to prevent total economic collapse -- can't we? n/t

[tabatha]

2. Lots of the invaders that grow like the weeds they are

are edible.

[saracat]

3. Yes. We should be prepared for a mulititude of events and we have little interest in doing so.

[tranche]

4. Are you serious?

We've got more food in this country than we know what to do with.

[KingFlorez]

5. I don't think food shortage will be a problem

We produce, import and export food, so there's plenty to go around. If anything, food production probably one of the most secure things we have right now.

[opihimoimoi]

6. But our Global Population doubles every 30 40 years ..depending on normal events

at same time our resources are declining...

Soon, if we don't prepare, hugh food deficits will occur

leading to stressful times...

Its not only me ...

There are many others who share this concern

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. The world population is expected to level off at perhaps 50% more than it is now

The rate of increase has slowed considerably already.

eg figures for world popiulation ( http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/region.php ):

1978: 4,303,133,652
1979: 4,377,496,958 - increase 1.73%

1988: 5,108,859,812
1989: 5,195,713,196 - increase 1.70%

1998: 5,932,090,951
1999: 6,008,254,795 - increase 1.28%

2008: 6,681,112,529
2009: 6,755,987,239 - increase 1.12%

By 2050, the predicted population is 9,202,458,484 - just 36% more than the current. And just 0.45% more than 2049.

[opihimoimoi]

12. We canardly feed ourselves at 6.5 Billion...9 billion gonna cause some series shit

[monmouth]

7. Well, don't count on much fish.....n/t

[besdayz]

8. a

famines are generally caused by local politics not food shortages.....ie warlords seizing donations...

[Pirate Smile]

9. Sure, it isn't like they are busy or anything.

[gmoney]

10. could massively stretch resources by curtailing meat production

doesn't it take something like 100 pounds of grain to produce a pound of beef? If things get dire, stop feeding grain to the livestock, and either have them graze, or just stop most or all livestock production for food.