> Although drought is frequently listed among the causes of the sudden
> spike in food prices, world grain production was at record levels last
> year. So climate change as a factor is apparently small, at least as
> yet.
People can only eat so much and what happens when more is produced is
that prices collapse.
What would be nice would be to produce several times what's actually
needed. If enough food gets grown that 25 billion could be fed, while
there are 7-8 billion of us, that would be kind of comforting, when
worrying about aquifers supplying 10% of agricultural produce or the
potential damage of droughts.
What to do with tbe surplus? Maybe feed it to animals or make
biofuels?
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