DAVOS participants worry about coming food / water shortages
 

Don't for one moment think that it couldn't happen in the US of A.

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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20px" vAlign=top width="99%">Food and water worries are top priorities, say Davos speakers</TD><TD vAlign=top align=right rowSpan=3>http://img.breitbart.com/images/LogoAFPsmall.jpg</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2>http://www.breitbart.com/images/common/dot.gif</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="99%">Jan 26 09:25 AM US/Eastern
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2>http://www.breitbart.com/images/common/dot.gif</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><!-- date/author end --><!-- article start --><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="FONT-SIZE: 14px">Warnings of a water and food crisis seemed incongruous among the lavish hospitality of Davos this year, but the danger was stressed repeatedly to the assembled world elite.
Scarcity of water was named by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as a top priority at the World Economic Forum and he warned that conflicts lay ahead if the provision of the vital resource could not be assured.
"Population growth will make the problem worse. So will climate change. As the global economy grows, so will its thirst. Many more conflicts lie just over the horizon," he said in a speech on Thursday.
Ban reminded the gathering of the world's wealthy powerbrokers in Davos that the conflict in Darfur in Sudan was touched off by a drought. "Too often where we need water, we find guns," he said.
Rising food prices are also causing problems in emerging countries, with demonstrations and violence witnessed in a host of countries including Mexico and African nations Mauritania, Morocco, Senegal.
Indian Trade Minister Kamal Nath warned earlier in the week that prices of some foodstuffs had doubled in his country at a time when 25 million people in India were estimated to have moved from taking one to two meals a day.

"What does 25 million people moving from one to two meals a day do for prices?" he asked a room of corporate bigwigs and policymakers who pay thousands of dollars to attend the exclusive get-together here.
Referring to the challenge of providing food at affordable prices, he said: "Next year in Davos we'll be discussing this."
Analysts forecast that world agricultural commodity prices are set to increase, particularly for cereals because of increased export taxes in many producers, strong global demand, a poor harvest in Australia this year and stepped-up speculation.
World Bank president Robert Zoellick also sounded the alarm, saying the cost of the basic nutritional requirements of people in many countries, mainly in Africa, was rising sharply.
"There are fifteen countries particularly vulnerable to high food and energy prices. We need some targeted efforts towards those vulnerable populations," he said.
Increased cultivation of crops for the production of biofuels, such as corn and sugar, has led to higher prices for staple foods in many countries and led to criticism of the new fuel source.

Biofuels, which were initially hyped as a "green" solution to the world's energy needs, drew criticism from the chairman of the UN's Nobel Prize-winning climate change panel.
"Wherever the production of fuels is going to conflict with the production of food, particularly in a world in which food prices are going up... obviously we are running into difficult territory," the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change chairman Rajendra Pachauri told reporters.
"In general, I am not entirely happy with the diversion of areas for the production of food into the area of production of fuels."
The chief financial officer of Brazil's state-run energy group Petrobas, Almir Barbassa, argued that market forces were at work and farmers could not be told what to grow.
Brazil is the world's biggest producer of sugar cane, which can be used to make the biofuel ethanol as well as sugar.
"With the price of oil going up it is better to use sugar cane to produce ethanol than to use sugar cane to produce sugar," he told AFP. "Farmers have the right to do what they want with their products. It's the choice of producers, not a choice of the markets." The annual Davos gathering in the Swiss Alps drew about 2,500 delegates, including about 30 heads of state, for five days of debating and networking. It wrapped up Saturday and concludes officially on Sunday morning.
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Re: DAVOS participants worry about coming food / water shortages
 

for something like this to be said at a global meeting . . .
not good, imo

Re: DAVOS participants worry about coming food / water shortages
 

Predictive programming = getting the public used to the idea so when it happens it seems 'normal'

learned that one from Alan Watt

Re: DAVOS participants worry about coming food / water shortages
 

That is what came to my mind. They are telling us what they have planned. Population controls are probably going to be part of it.

Re: DAVOS participants worry about coming food / water shortages
 

Israel uses the same tactics, cut off the water and starve them until they do what you want. Very effective!
Someone should be very worried about a population that is hungry and thirsty!
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Re: DAVOS participants worry about coming food / water shortages
 

Too many people in the world, in China, India, Bangladesh and
Sub-Saharan Africa. It's just a fact of life, but it's getting worse. China has stabilised its population somewhat apparently, with the one-child policy.

As with any species on the planet, when people exceed the available food resource, the die-offs begin. Ethiopia is a tragic example of that happening. It is either a mass starvation, or a war for resources.. or both.

I think they might be softening us up for Monsanto GM crap though.

The problem is really overpopulation, lack of education, lack of machinery and know-how, and lack of arable land.

Water is not really a problem in terms of drinking water, we can make fresh water given the right incentive, food is another matter, and you need water irrigation to make food on a decent scale, and arable land.

What's the answer? Education primarily, and help with providing certain resources.

Re: DAVOS participants worry about coming food / water shortages
 

Solar powered sea water desalination can provide sea salt and fresh water. Too much wealth is going into blowing infrastructure up and too little into building high start up cost but long range cheap and profitable infrastructure.

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at the last davos meeting in 2007 they discussed the collapse of hedge funds and the serious problem with over the counter OTC derivatives. it seems that what their agenda is each year becomes our agenda for that year.

I would plan this year according to what they discuss at their meetings.