[Terrapreta] Food Shortages

[Kevin Chisholm]

Dear Lou

lou gold wrote:
> I'll begin with a friendly note to Kevin...
>
> WARNING: These links may be a major diversion from your primary tasks.
> If you want to hold your focus, don't go there.

No problem at all, whatsoever! List Owner Tom wants the Terra Preta List 
to be broad, so thats the way it will be.

The World has so many topics of interest and concern, eh?

Best wishes,

Kevin
>
> http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article3782.html
> http://business.theage.com.au/japans-hunger-becomes-a-dire-warning-for-other-nations/20080420-27ey.html
> http://nysun.com/news/food-rationing-confronts-breadbasket-world
>
> Food rationing of some sort is coming. I am old enough to remember
> the last time food was rationed in the US -- during WWII. I was too young
> (4-9 years) to understand much but here are a few things that I remember.
>
> There were shortages but no hunger.
>
> There was massive education to explain the relationship between
> food and the war needs. We actually did little "morality plays" about
> it in elementary school.
>
> In Chicago where I lived there was a neighborhood "Victory Garden"
> on every block that had an empty lot or a bit of free space.
>
> Government was ever-present and was largely perceived as an instrument
> of a public will that wanted to win the war.
>
> Nowadays and thinking of the future that is arriving as I write, can 
> you imagine
> yummy soil amendments being delivered to the neighborhoods? etc? and etc?
> Like the old Indian Elder said, "It could be a very good time."
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