Hunger Watch: food riots
About a week ago, I wrote about how humanity seems to be disturbingly close to the mass die-off that Thomas Malthus predicted 200 years ago. In that last week, I’ve come across a huge amount of additional evidence suggesting that this theoretical catastrophe might soon become a reality:
- Food riots have been taking place around the world; the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is suggesting that this may lead to social instability.
- The use of corn ethanol as an energy source is causing a rise in the price of corn, which means that many people can no longer afford it.
- People in Haiti have resorted to eating mud.
- A US envoy is visiting North Korea, of all places, to provide food aid.
And that’s just a short list of stories I’ve happened to encounter. I’ll keep following this issue in the future; stay tuned to see what else is going on. The striking thing about this problem is the fact that in Western countries like the US, we’re facing an “obesity epidemic” at the same time as this “starvation epidemic.”
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