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Re: [Livingontheland] From Food Crisis to Food Sovereignty
- From: "John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>
- To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] From Food Crisis to Food Sovereignty
- Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 19:57:07 -0000
I suppose we better agree to disagree then Pego.
Why do you think colonisation of America, Africa and Australia happened?
Politics or because the old home countries were full to overflowing with the
means they had at the time.
In 1850 the Irish population peaked over 8 million
and then the famine killed a million and millions emigrated resulting in a left
over population of around 3 million. The population today is around 4.5 million
and Ireland imports over 70% of all the nutrients being consumed here by people
and animals.
With a world population over 500 million people we
can not but destroy our ecosystems and this is what we can see happening
everywhere now. We are loosing biodiversity and species every minute of every
day. Our soil is disappearing and there is nary a drop of unpolluted water left
anywhere. 500 million was the calculated sustainable carrying capacity of this
planet for human kind. I am afraid it has become a lot lower since this figure
was first mentioned.
Of course politicians are shunting ever more money
to the already super rich but at the end of the day this money means only as
much as people are willing to give it, especially since we only have "fiat"
money everywhere at the moment. There are laws to force one to see these bits of
paper as legal tender but at the same time we are heading for a major financial
crisis like you can't imagine.
On two occasions that I know of governments
(Belgium and Zaire) in the past decided overnight that the only way out of
financial problems was to declare the going currency invalid overnight and to
start with a complete new one. If this were to happen again the rich and the
poor will have exactly the same : nada.
As I see it there are multiple factors working
together. It is not either overpopulation, drought and primitive farming methods
or colonial take over.All these factors work together. Climate change is on it's
own capable of sinking our boat. Combine this with overpopulation and colonial
take overs and catastrophe is assured.
I don't think "primitive" farming methods are to
blame for anything in this list. Often they are the only sustainable methods.
Green revolution methods have made it possible to grow more food of a much lower
quality but they have also polluted and lost us soil and nearly killed the
oceans. In short they can be compared with an enormous mortgage on our
future.
To my mind there is nothing more sure than that we
are in for an enormous crash. And also that the longer we keep going as we
are the deeper we are going to fall.
john
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