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Sunday, March 6, 2011

David Olive: We unwisely ignore the global food crisis (Moneyville.ca, reprinted in the Toronto Star)

"While it’s an ugly truth that many stand to profit from malnutrition and the prospect of starvation in especially hard-hit countries like Bangladesh, Uganda, Cameroon, Vietnam and Burundi, the real scandal is continued global sloth on climate-change remedies. ...

"'The fact is that climate around the world is changing,' says Sunny Verghese, CEO of Olam International, one of the world’s three leading distributors of rice and cotton. 'That will cause massive disruptions.'

"Lee Myung Bak, president of South Korea, has been a rarity among heads of government in bluntly linking food shortages with global warming. In launching a task force of food security, Lee declared: 'There is an increasing likelihood of food crisis globally, due to climate change.'

"The endpoint of 'massive disruption' will be mass migration of humanity to arable land....

"We don’t think of weather and food as factors in radical geopolitical change. It’s long past time we began to."

Full article: Olive: We unwisely ignore the global food crisis.

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