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Food Shortage Flowchart
Updates: released v.02 on May 8, 2008 View v.01
This map now operates under the assumption that global warming has contributed to poor growing conditions for the better half of the past decade.
This flowchart is a concerted effort to explain our current global food shortage. What hasn’t been included is the huge population boom since the industrial revolution. If you can describe to me how to include that in this chart you’ll win a prize. Actually, I’ll give you my thanks and give you credit at the bottom of the post. Thanks. : )
Contributions are welcome (and probably necessary).
Food Shortage Flowchart by www.shorthandlogic.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Sources:
- Keith Bradsher, Andrew Martin, Shortages Threaten Farmers’ Key Tool: Fertilizer.
NYTimes.com. April 30, 2008. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/business/worldbusiness/30fertilizer.html - BBC News, Q&: Rising World Food Prices. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7340214.stm
6 Responses to “Food Shortage Flowchart”
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May 8th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Hello Short Hand Logic people,
I’ve written an article called Indigenous Welcome and Orchard Food Production Efficiencies, which describes humanity’s ‘indigenous’ (derived from the Latin meaning ’self-generating’) history and economic model, which will provide you with a more complete understanding of the engineered scarcity we now find ourselves part of. I can send this to you.
May 14th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
dont forget to include the correlation between rising temp and locust migration. they creep up the latitudes along with the arid climate. the next swarm is when shit is seriously gonna hit the fan. we should probably start buying DDT back from all the third world countries we’ve been exporting it too.
May 15th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Mega Disasters on the History channel?
Locust migration is a damn good example of climate change in action and how small changes in temperature over an extended period of time can lead to, y’know, a tipping point.
If we douse these swarms with chemicals we’ll be contaminating our environment too… unfortunately it’s a bit of a catch 22 as there is no solution to an expected locust problem that will leave us as we were, much less better than we were.
Thanks for the comment Ray, much appreciated!
- Joe
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June 29th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
As a philosophical/theological follow up:
“…Modern techno-industrial society is a product of the ‘enlightenment project’ and is deeply rooted in what philosophers refer to as ‘Cartesian dualism.’ This perspective sees humans as somehow separate from the biophysical world, assumes we are masters of nature and enables us to act as if society is not subject to serious ecological constraints…”
http://www.scarp.ubc.ca/faculty%20profiles/rees.htm
George/Yuri