Food Crisis Rippling Out Like a “Tsunami”

[ensho]

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/20/9077/


“A rolling tsunami of social unrest is underway as we speak — hungry people are desperate people capable of taking desperate actions. This tsunami is rapidly enveloping the global South, and it won’t take much longer before it knocks at the door of the global North,” warned Vicente Garcia-Delgado, the U.N. representative for CIVICUS, the world alliance for citizen participation.

At a forum on the world food crisis held at the United Nations Friday, civil society groups stressed that over 800 million people are now at risk of starvation, while 100 million have joined the ranks of the extremely poor in just the last few months and are now living on less than a dollar a day.

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However, “Even within rich countries, increasingly large portions of the population are having real problems bringing food to the table and paying for other basic necessities,” Garcia-Delgado said.

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“Governments must not fall prey to the temptation to seek unilateral solutions based on defensive or militaristic non-solutions. It would be extremely dangerous to look at the current crisis strictly from a national perspective. A knee-jerk resort to a ‘fortress America’ or a ‘fortress Europe’ type of mentality would only exacerbate the risks of social and political chaos and will not work,” Garcia-Delgado said.

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“Years of foot-dragging, unkept promises, endless negotiations, a slow response to climate change, and the refusal to harness market globalisation — these are some of the principal reasons which have brought us to the sorry predicament we find ourselves at the beginning of the 21st century,” he said.
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yesterday a bunch of americans were made newly poor by climate change tornados.

today many americans will become newly poor - job loss, health loss, price of everything going up.

tick, tick, tick

[El Pinko]

1. Interesting article...

...but then you had to throw in "climate change tornadoes".

How are "climate change tornadoes" identified vs. the regular tornadoes that tear up the plains states every spring and summer?

:eyes:

[murray hill farm]

2. More tornados now!

earlier, more deaths and more devastation. Google will give you the stats. Significant increases in tornado activity.

[ensho]

3. volume and strength

nt

[PATRICK]

4. Just a ripple

and on the stagnant pond of MSM overmind control just a passing note.

What you have are endless unacknowledged pockets of isolated despairing victims, whether they riot in place or not, all over the globe rendered powerless and absorbed into a false picture of civilization stasis punctuated by surprises, shock and tombstones between infotainment segments on celebrities. The entire population of earth could so convulse and decline and die in place under this monstrous absurdity until local engagement finally tips over the lid of corporate mental gate-keeping monopolies into total irrelevance. So much that real human endeavor can once again genuinely get by the roadblocks.

[ensho]

5. true

nt

[ensho]

6. kick because this is important

yesterday India lost 30 to 40% of food crops in one area due to severe hail storm


every day there is less and less food in the world's human food chain