All eyes may be on Hurricane Issac as it steams towards New
Orleans, but the real weather story of 2012 is the unprecedented heat
waves/droughts that are expected to become the most
costly disaster in United States history.
Global warming advocate Bill McKibben
said: “it’s not just off the charts. It’s off the wall the charts are tacked
to.”
We will all feel the heat this fall as
food prices go through the roof. The
weather conditions have caused catastrophic economic ramifications for the
United States and Canada.
Considering the increase in staples
like rice, wheat and other grains, over the past few years., any increase is
going to be tough on average families that are paying through the nose to feed
their families as it is. Corn and
soybean crops have been hit particularly hard in the United States. These
products play a large role in the feed and processed foods. Expect prices on
grocery shelves to rise. Corn goes to
feed cows, pigs, chickens and even farmed fish, that is where the price
increase is likely to be felt most.
The effects will ripple through the
food chain.
Apparently, Canada is faring better.
Farmers could have bumper crops this year, but that will only assist in filling
the demand caused by dramatic crop failures.
2 comments:
What would help us in the long run would be a switch away from our growing dependance on corn altogether.
Corn and its often unhealthy derivatives has infiltrated our diet to an alarming extent.
And we should all eat less meat - the planet would be in better shape, to say nothing of our arteries.
But no...we'll just keep paying more and eating ourselves and our planet into early graves.
Read "Climate Wars" by Gwynne Dyer. According to his predictions, the food shortages are going to get worse, leading to other problems.
Tony
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