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Thread ID: 90175	2008-05-25 19:35:00	Late Corn Crop = Starvation?	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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672467	2008-05-26 13:19:00	This whole globalisation thing seems to have worked out quite badly. I was a great believer in it too - comparative advantage, free trade, free movement of labour/capital etc. In the case of rice and maize, they have moved from the mouths of the poor to the bank accounts/fuel tanks of the rich.	vinref (6194)
672468	2008-05-26 21:13:00	Mate, this is a post about crop failure, not problems with the global oil supply. That was in another thread. Actually its very much linked, ever heard of biofuel?	Battleneter2 (9361)
672469	2008-05-27 02:39:00	You seem to care enough about certain world events enough to make large forum posts, and being a American citizen you have far more power to effect world change (the US being currently the worlds largest economy) . If the US introduced a law 5 years ago, taxing SUV's and other poor fuel consuming vehicles, subsides hybrids and better performing cars, that would be having a huge impact now, certainly pushing peak oil back by years . This would have had a flow on effect to other countries no doubt adopting similar policies . Biofuel would be "less" of a issue . Hardly rocket science I would have thought . I really don't see where you can say that I am not concerned about "world events" as you say . . . I very much am!!!! Maybe in YOUR opinion, I am some sorta big-headed, megawattage-user Ah-muhr-i-kan . . . but I decry the definition . It sounds like you are trying to bait me into an argument . . . but I don't think it'll happen . . . I see things a little differently than you . The world is running around like a chicken with it's legs cut off and it's not gonna get any better . . . but it's best left unsaid in the public post area as to why I say that . The rocket science to which you so boldly point is doing fine . . . in rockets! Food and fuel and transportation and even the smidgen of effect that humans have on the earth are all being considered . . . but it's all fouled up because the inmates are running the asylum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . some run for political office; some run newspapers; some write survival books; some are talking heads on the telly . . . . but the common thread is that they are diversions to the truth . The next REAL biggie is gonna be water . . and that's raising it's head slowly right now . . . but it'll gather momentum and crescendo and you'll be flat-footed when it happens because the man behind the curtains has you all steamed up over the global warming non-issue . Do a 360º and take a good look in all directions . :confused: Well . . . by now it's too late to circle the wagons . . . . . Sorry there, pilgrim . Even in Nevil Shute's book: "On The Beach" . . . NZ and Australia got it in the end . Natch! He was an Aussie writer! Good book though!!!!	SurferJoe46 (51)
672470	2008-05-27 02:45:00	Even in Nevil Shute's book: "On The Beach"...NZ and Australia got it in the end. Natch! He was an Aussie writer! Good book though!!!! I actually thought it was an extremely boring and depressing book! :p I'll take Alistair McLean over him any day.	wratterus (105)
672471	2008-05-27 05:59:00	I actually thought it was an extremely boring and depressing book! :p I'll take Alistair McLean over him any day . Well then you got it! Boring and depressing . . . I can see that . . . after all it was the untimely death of the human race . I'd be depressed too . . . and the boredom would set in when there was nobody else to talk to anywhere . . even a Pom . But . . . . an A+ for you . . . go to the head of the class . As for Alistair McLean, he's a relative on my mother's side . . . the MacGills/Langleys . I don't like nepotism, so I never mention him . :D There may be other reasons too .	SurferJoe46 (51)
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