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Slide 1: ==== ==== For more important information please visit: http://scrnch.me/FS ==== ==== The current economic crisis, coupled with the catastrophic effects of global warming, are creating food shortages around the globe. So serious has the situation become for dwindling world food stocks, that the United Nations has issued a dire warning about the looming dangers being faced by billions of people world wide. According to an Associated Press News Release back in April 2008, "The U.N. chief warned Sunday that the world must urgently increase food production to ease skyrocketing prices, and pledged to set up a task force on a crisis threatening to destabilize developing nations." He went on to say that this has already caused riots in many countries of the world. The problem of soaring food prices, combined with poor yields from the new weather patterns we've entered into, are now an all too real reality. According to the Guardian News Service, January 9, 2009, "Billions face food shortages, study warns. Climate change may ruin farming in the tropics by 2100. Record temperatures to become normal in European sample. Half of the worlds population could face severe food shortages by the end of the century as rising temperatures take their toll on farmers' crops, scientists have warned." These dire warnings are not just referring to shortages in the third world, but also closer to home. In an April 2008 article, the New York Sun News Service reported, "Major retailers in New York, areas in New England and the West Coast, are limiting purchases of flour, rice, and cooking oil as demand outstrips supply." Furthermore, the United States heartland is currently experiencing both massive drought and devastating flooding. Australia is also suffering from drought. Australia lost most of their wheat crop in 2007/2008, which was down 62% from the previous year. The fact is, we are entering into a new, and unprecedented global climate change. According to a Pentagon report obtained by the Guardian News Service back in 2004, an imminent scenario of catastrophic climate change is "plausible and would challenge United States National Security in ways that should be considered immediately." The report goes on to say that, "as early as next year (2005), widespread flooding by a rise in sea levels will create massive upheaval for millions." Well, they were close... a devastating tsunami killed hundreds of thousands of people occurred early... in December of 2004. What does this mean for us? It means that even if we can afford astronomical food prices, we cannot necessarily depend on the food being successfully brought to harvest--thanks in large part to the new weather patterns we are now experiencing. Also, it's the law of supply and demand. The less supply, coupled with greater demand, equals shortages and massive price gouging. We must each act responsibly by preparing for these eventualities. We should invest in non-hybrid gardening seeds and in the knowledge necessary to grow our own food. We should do this in
Slide 2: order to feed our families, as well as others in need. However, we cannot necessarily depend upon the weather to help us either. We need to invest in our future by procuring MRE's, canned and freeze dried foods ASAP. We also need to know how to preserve and store food ourselves. In any given survival situation, there are two kinds of people. One simply "can't deal with it", and dies. The other refuses to "go quietly into the night." He takes the actions required to face up to the challenges and goes about the business of surviving. Which kind are you? Let us not add to the panic which may lay ahead of us by putting our head in the sand. Let us be among the responsible ones who help alleviate the problem by putting up food--for ourselves and for others! C.L. Carr has been living off the grid and practicing self-sufficiency for many years. For tips and guidelines pertaining to the issues addressed in this article and many other, please visit http://emergencyfoodpreservation.blogspot.com/ or http://survivalcentral.blogspot.com/ Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=C._L._Carr ==== ==== For more important information please visit: http://scrnch.me/FS ==== ====