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Consequences / Re: When and how bad?
« on: May 08, 2013, 06:04:33 PM »
I think the idea that a market economy exists that will level food prices and restore food to everyone is wrong.
I think that ideal might exist in a single roughly homogenous economy. over the scope of the entire world, i think it is absurd.
Over on Wunderground, someone recently posted about the Indian suicides and Monsanto. Take that as you will, where was the market then? Regardless of cause, the suicides are facts. So is drought, etc.
And this will get worse, not better, as food prices go higher. Imagine the reaction in the US if we decided to contribute more money to ship food to Africa in an environment of rising prices? The GOP would go crazy as would a lot of Dems.
So a lot of third world people die, which leads to a lot of revolutions, extremism, etc. That is what I fear more than direct physical causes: our track record of solving disputes peacefully is poor at best. Look at congress today. How are they going to solve anything when situations start getting bad?
I think that ideal might exist in a single roughly homogenous economy. over the scope of the entire world, i think it is absurd.
Over on Wunderground, someone recently posted about the Indian suicides and Monsanto. Take that as you will, where was the market then? Regardless of cause, the suicides are facts. So is drought, etc.
And this will get worse, not better, as food prices go higher. Imagine the reaction in the US if we decided to contribute more money to ship food to Africa in an environment of rising prices? The GOP would go crazy as would a lot of Dems.
So a lot of third world people die, which leads to a lot of revolutions, extremism, etc. That is what I fear more than direct physical causes: our track record of solving disputes peacefully is poor at best. Look at congress today. How are they going to solve anything when situations start getting bad?