Re: End of cheap oil unmasks "plenty of food" myth
- From: Tim May <timcmay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 20:00:10 -0700
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<416e82db-ba87-415b-b95b-3c7c76e08df4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Enough Already <enough_already@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
When a herd of elk is starving, we don't claim that grain could be
shipped from 7,000 miles away. We just call them overpopulated. The
same is true of chronically starving people.
Between one and two billion people have been living on handouts and
subsidized prices from the First World. This is coming to an end, as
the First Worlders are massively overtaxed and cannot keep shipping
food to those who produce nothing that allows them to actually _buy_
food.
And so the "herd of elk," to use your metaphor, faces the inevitable
burn-off of about 1.5 billion or so useless eaters.
No point in getting worried or sentimental about it. These people bred
up beyond their ability to feed their families (helped along by the
free food they were getting, ironically) and now the price is being
paid.
Anyone worried or sentimental about the situation is free to send his
money and his food to Sudan, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, Somalia, Ethiopia,
and provinces in India, Indonesia, and even Brazil.
Understand that those folks who send money and food will likely just
make the eventual death toll higher, for the reasons mentioned.
--Tim May
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