If you have followed his writings for any time at all you'd have to say that Gwyn Dyer doesn't view the world through rose-tinted glasses. He's not filled with boundless optimism nor is he a fool.
In today's article, headed "World food supply in peril", Dyer describes the move by Russia to ban all grain exports for the rest of the year and goes to great pains to say that we can't be sure that climate change is responsible for the extreme heat and resulting drought that created the need for the giant country to keep its grain supplies to itself, but you know he believes it is.
The danger from the Russian ban? People in other countries that rely on importing their grain will starve to death.
The world's grain reserves are low, lower than they should be in order for us to be comfortable about global food supplies and climate change will worsen this situation significantly.
Dyer finishes with,
"The main impact of global warming on human beings will be on the food supply, and eating is a non-negotiable activity. Today Russia, tomorrow the world."
4 comments:
Interesting indeed Rob - I thought Russia had in the past imported grain ? We need to control insane population growth, alligned with climate change and our bloated lifestyles and backsides - witness the wider seats in ailrliners...to get out of this hole...
Hey Pedro.
Looks like that 'insane population growth' might be in line for some control-by-climate to me and it's not as though that's not already happening. Searching for an image to accompany my post was a wake up for me and I'm still not quite settled down from seeing those pictures of staving people. Made me think about how sobering it is to look straight at examples of what 'hunger' really means. I doubt that our 'bloated lives' will change at all until the time comes when we are struggling to find something to put in our mouths.
Grain shortages, wherever the occur are serious events. Australia learned that recently. Here in Southland, we've created our own shortage by replacing grain fields with pasture for cows. I sense a problem looming.
We could just drink milk if things get rough.
Or eat the cow. Pity we won't have clean water to go with it.
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