If we read these two reports that appeared in The Star Biz section today,Scramble to stockpile rice has started {StarBiz} and Wheat jumps to highest in three years.{StarBiz & Bloomberg}. we notice that World governments are waking up to the fact that, though their citizens can stand a lot of nonsense dished out by corrupt leaders and avaricious businessmen, empty stomachs and the loss of hope will drive them mad. Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, are ongoing examples of people asking for their basic rights to affordable food and shelter and hope for dignity in life. You now see Governments scrambling to stockpile rice and grains to prevent rises due to immoral speculation by bankers and hedge funds.
But they will fight a losing battle, as bankers and "investors" contrive to make money in a market that will soon be driven by reducing food production caused by increasing population and inclement weather. Like oil, rice and wheat will very soon be unaffordable to the poor and downtrodden, and what are the politicians and governments doing about this? Stockpiling is only a short term and temporary solution; we need to a new world economic order, one that is not based on profits but on surviving together in the only planet that is known to harbour life.. Of course that is an impossible dream, and so the end of an "orderly world" as we know it will soon come to confront us.
The UN Secretary General hit the nail on the head, when he recently said that maintaining the present economic model is committing environmental suicide
Sadly, some of us maybe still alive when "all hell breaks loose" ...
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