I got to hear a talk the other day by Lester Brown, head of the Earth Policy Institute. He talked, among other things, about the relationship between global warming, food scarcity, and the geo-political instability that could result. Scary stuff. This article provides a summary of his ideas.
"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed" – Blaise Pascal
3 responses to “Global warming, food shortages, and … civilizational collapse?”
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Its not only alarmist claptrap but pure speculation based on a religion.
The questions are scientific, but the UN answers are political. The global warming debate is hardly about science. It has become a cause célèbre, championed by activists, politicians and celebrities. To deny their belief that humans are the cause of global warming is to invoke their wrath. Science is not consensus; Science is theory, observation and measurement. Science is not, “let’s all take a vote on the speed of light and see what number we get.” Science is dictated by nature’s rules.
The U.N. would milk the last cow in the paddock, and leave the cow’s own calf starving! -
You pose a false dichotomy – science is based on theory, observation, and measurement, and when enough people get the same results you get consensus, or an approximation thereof. So it’s both/and, not either/or. Do you really think that the findings of the IPCC, say, are based on people just voting for whatever they feel like?
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It’s hardly “alarmist claptrap.” It isn’t even news; people have been talking and worrying about water shortages, for instance, for a long time now – such as in this 1994 article. “Global warming” isn’t mentioned – nor is it in this article, from 1999.
A Thinking Reed 
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