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Right now the energy costs of desalinization is prohibitive...
Sure, but that wasn't my point. My point was simply that we aren't going to run out of drinking water, in fact the suggestion is a bit silly given the planet is mostly water. At the very very least you could create your own drinking water with technology seen in high school science fairs! People in this country are not going to fight for something that can be so easily created.
It is not food rationing, it is the wholesalers stopping businesses from hoarding and short supplying clubs...thus shorting their stock for the average family shopper. Yall need to get a grip and get educated. Posts like these is what feeds the fear and the mad dash for supplies, creating a shortage, thus driving up prices. OMG PEOPLE!!!!
I agree. That's how panic starts and then it all goes downhill after that.
I watch the news and read articles on the internet. And they make it seem like a dire situation that is spiraling out of control. But when I go to my local grocery store, people are shopping normally like usual, and the shopping malls are still FULL with people buying everything like they normally do.
When I see a change in any of these behaviors, that's when I will get concerned.
When I see a change in any of these behaviors, that's when I will get concerned.
Yeah its sorta hard to get concerned when everything seems so....well normal. Even here in housing bubble central (California) things are pretty normal.
I'm not concerned with people starving in 3rd world countries. As a society, America is seen as greedy, wealthy, obese, etc. I see those countries as full of selfish, horrible adults.
I see these ads with photos of starving children, dressed in rags. I remember seeing these commercials when I was 5 and 6.
30 years later, those commercials have been updated. Seems to me that SOMEONE is surviving if they're still able to reproduce. I can't feel sorry for people who claim to be starving and can't feed their children, but then they have more.
Show me an ad requesting $$ for birth control, rather than $$ for food, and THAT will tug at my heartstrings.
I'm not concerned with people starving in 3rd world countries. As a society, America is seen as greedy, wealthy, obese, etc. I see those countries as full of selfish, horrible adults.
I see these ads with photos of starving children, dressed in rags. I remember seeing these commercials when I was 5 and 6.
30 years later, those commercials have been updated. Seems to me that SOMEONE is surviving if they're still able to reproduce. I can't feel sorry for people who claim to be starving and can't feed their children, but then they have more.
Show me an ad requesting $$ for birth control, rather than $$ for food, and THAT will tug at my heartstrings.
30 years ago Haiti was a very productive country and self sufficient.
In comes the US with loans and tied to those loans was a requirement that Haiti open it's doors to US exports. The US exports were subsidized and became cheaper then native Haiti goods so production ceased and the country became dependent on US exports.
US greedy..yes and look what we've done to those countries in the name of globalization.
Mexico and corn is the same story.
Globalization did not make any of these countries better..they just fattened the US Corporate wallets.
I thought your post was funny in a real sort of way. Except for the indentured servant part a/k/a slavery, not so funny. But good post nonetheless!
Very good point. It was a sad lesson in history that is already happening. Look at the Mexican croppers in the US. Look at the living conditions, wages, sex slavery...you name it. It already does happen in a fashion. All so they can come and make better wages to live on and send home. That my friend is slavery.
When there is a void people make money. Example....
Banks with bad loan and banking practices + a need for someone to broker all those home sales = greedy well feed real estate agents and bankers
Lets triagulate shall we???
America with possible food issues + same greedy real estate agents with out income = ????? Inventive ways to profit off the backs of the common American again? I already saw evidence of this from a real estate agent on another thread.
The worst thing about this bursted credit/home bubble is the absence of the next bubble.
Seems like having too many "investors/speculators" accessing commodities is a bad idea... Investors who don't know much about the supply and demand shifts and aren't part of the industry are causing such dramatic turmoil in these markets.
I guess Costco and Cos should thank the doom and gloomers for spurring some rice sales
-chuck22b
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What shortage?
