not fat people per-se, but the industrial scale agriculture that permitted their propagation. Modern agriculture is driven by oil (for farm machinery) and nitrogen based fertilisers (produced using the haber-bosch process and a great deal of oil based energy). When oil begins to run out, modern agriculture will fail and along with it, the artificially...
I don't think any country ever went to war with another because they ate all the pies.
I think the next world war will come about when the USA, aware of its waning powers, attacks China.
Sandy's comment reminds me of the late Tyneside comedian Bobby Thompson, reminiscing about the war. When the air raid siren sounded he shouted to his wife to hurry to the air raid shelter. His wife replied, "Hang on, I haven't got my teeth in", to which Bobby replied,"for God's sake, woman, they're dropping bombs, not pork pies!"
Mick , those two things are not linked . That the 26 000 odd people died from hunger where no food was available is not the fault of the 519 million odd obese people who had access to plentiful food supplies .
Tony Blair who hopes to be the European President. When he has sorted out the Eurozone mess they are in at present. And then he can do unto them what he has already done to us.
I think the "professor" is talking nonsense really.
I know there is no direct link argrostran but i was curious as to how many needlessly die of starvation , considering the amount of tat that is shipped round the world...needlessly
not fat people per-se, but the industrial scale agriculture that permitted their propagation. Modern agriculture is driven by oil (for farm machinery) and nitrogen based fertilisers (produced using the haber-bosch process and a great deal of oil based energy). When oil begins to run out, modern agriculture will fail and along with it, the artificially high population level that it's been sustaining for the past 100 years.
millions will die, either through starvation, or in the inevitable wars fought for the dwindling resorces left.
Misuse of water supplies . The Aral sea was destroyed by extraction of water from the rives that fed it. The upper reaches of rivers are being diverted thus reducing the amount available down stream.
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