[Peace-discuss] Biofuels are prime cause of food crisis, says leaked (World Bank) report -

[n.dahlheim at mchsi.com]

I completely concur, especially when you consider the extraordinarily precarious nature of agriculture.  
The only reason that the amount of humans being fed on this planet is as high as it is, is dependent 
upon the petrochemical inputs and massive irrigation and tilling technology that artificially boosts 
yields.  Declining water tables (the Ogallala aquifer in the central U.S. is in a lot of trouble going 10-20 
years in the future) and now the peaking of world oil production likely means that America, a land of 
people who stuff their faces with food and see their waistlines expand continuously, will itself have 
trouble feeding itself using commercialized mechanized factory agriculture.  And we're putting that 
food in our cars?  We are a stupid and vain people, and Nature and the rest of the world will have their 
revenge upon us....  I can't tell you how many people here in NYC are so convinced that Barack Obama 
is going to fix things----just total idiocy from the "creative class" yuppies who are continuing to do 
poor imitations of committed progressive thinkers.