Food Wars

[sendai]

On 22/04/2008, at 7:01 PM, Wayne Eddy wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "jon louis mann" <net_democracy at yahoo.com>
> To: "Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion" <brin-l at mccmedia.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:01 AM
> Subject: Food Wars
>
>> Independent journalist and broadcaster Gwynne Dyer premiered a new  
>> idea
>> in front of a two-thirds capacity crowd at the Humanities Theatre
>> Wednesday. The talk, titled Climate Wars, predicted that the wars of
>> the future would not be fought over oil or to punish rogue states,  
>> but
>> that they would be fought over food.
>
> I can't see wars being fought over food.  The problem will be cheap  
> energy.
> With enough cheap energy you should be able to grow all the food you  
> want
> hydroponically with desalinated or recycled water pumped to where  
> ever you
> wish.
There are already riots and a fair-bit of discontent over increasing  
food prices. The drought here in Australia has reduced the world-wide  
supply of rice, doubling prices in the last three month. There will be  
wars being fought over food and water...

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