So don't blame them.

Follow the money.

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"Have you no decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
-Joseph Welch

Like Al Gore and the Democratic party circa 1995

Blaming environmentalists for the food shortage is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard.

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well get used to ridiculous things being reality.

3rd world countries that are in many cases dominated and exploited by MNCs from the Western powers. Yes we should stay away from McDonalds bth for our own health, the good of the Rainforests and for their human rights abuses.


But there is a monopoly on where food is grown. At one stage th EU had what was know as Corn mountains and Milk lakes because of our over production. However rather than allow these products be passed on to 3rd world countries for free or at a cut price they decided to lt them ferment and become useless.

And their is a crop that is carbon effeciant. The oil from Rape-seed(funny name) also olive oil can effectively run a petrol engine.

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"We will disobey your laws as long as they are unjust and they make a world shaped only for your profit"-G8 protestor Genoa 2001





NO PASERÁN!!

"We learned a long time ago that we should never subject ourselves to the schedules of the powerful. We had to follow our own calendar and impose it on those above.” - Subcommandante Marcos

You're right: it's the government's fault!!

It couldn't simply be that the population is growing too quickly for the resources available, right? Of course not, that would deprive us of another opportunity to heap ridicule on the nanny state!

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"Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states...Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds."



~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The world is not overpopulated. There are still numerous places on the planet that are uninhabited or sparsely inhabited that can well-accommodate the "excess" population in major metropolitan centers like Beijing, Jakarta, etc. And, yes, corrupt governments in many of these countries do share in the blame.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

Life is stranger than fiction: get over it!

Environmentalists pushed to outlaw various pesticides that helped farmers to not lose so much of their crops to bugs; so, farmers can't grow as much. Environmentalists pushed for biofuels (a process that, in the case of ethanol, is more harmful to the environment than producing gasoline from oil) and the result was that there is significantly less corn being grown for food. And so on, and so on, and so on...

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

The world isn't overpopulated, huh? There's a reason people live in population centers--because they're suitable areas for many people to live in. A tiny fraction of the earth's surface is suitable for large numbers of people. You can't just spread them out evenly across the surface, either. Too many places where people can't live. The world doesn't have significant overpopulation problems--yet. But it will within the next few decades.

And how would we move the "excess" from the population centers to the sparsely populated areas, exactly?

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"Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states...Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds."



~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The world isn't necessarily over-populated. One might say it is improperly populated.

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"Have you no decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
-Joseph Welch