Food is Politics and Politics is Food —

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"the rock of the insatiable demand of seven billion (soon-to-be-ten-billion) people smashes into the hard place of the planet’s limited resources"
"if all the world’s seven billion people consumer as much as the average American, it would require the resources of over five planet Earths"
" In fact the change in diet of the Chinese and Indian and Brazilian populations is one of the biggest undocumented stories of globalization – driving up food prices dramatically and punishing the poorer nations (not to mention the inexorable currency devaluations that Central Bankers are slooshing unintendedly to these nations capital markets)"
"need for the water and therefore the need for oil (energy to grow, clean, and transport).
In short the single-biggest driver of the price of food is the price of oil, so as we hit Peak Oil, are we also hitting Peak Food – and if so, what is next?"
"In the west, the poor are getting fatter and the rich are getting thinner (as food is becoming a class issue)…and that is leading to dramatic shifts in health costs…"
"The process of bailing out credit junkies in the rich world is driving up the price of survival in the poor world."
Food is Politics and Politics is Food
"A roller-coaster where Finance and Ecology meets Economics, Demography, and Politics and the outcome is the ‘very survival – and progression – of humanity’…" – in a world where billions of people want what you have and might be prepared to do anything politically, militarily, or financially to achieve this…

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