News – Hunger bashed in the front gate of Haiti's presidential palace. Hunger poured onto the streets, burning tires and taking on soldiers and police. Hunger sent the country's prime minister packing. The food crisis not only is being felt among the poor, but also is eroding the gains of the working and middle classes, sowing volatile levels of discon
Quit producing corn-based ethanol and expanding domestic drilling would be two good places to start. But, as you might have noticed, the problem is world-wide. So much for U.S. oil companies causing all the trouble.
Ted Turner is a bonehead. You might have noticed, "climate change" wasn't listed among causes in the story, and starvation in Haiti hardly is new.
Check out Australian rice production, and then tell me climate change isn't an issue.
Ethanol from corn has never been a very good idea, except on a local basis, you can't add transportation costs to it, you have to have a use for the distillers grain that doesn't require drying or much transportation....
think Somalia , most of h these countries are ruled by war lords who murder the opposition. Anyone standing in their way they simply eliminate. We can send all the food in the world and they will steel it, sell it and make more war. Maybe we should assist these countries with our military like Darfur. But wait that would be nation building, gues we'll just let them starve
I was talking about the governments of the countries where people are getting poorer helping their own poor. When people starve, those governments that don't help take big risks. Bringing out the military to keep them in check will work for a while, but the people won't care--they'll have no choice, and eventually they'll become destructive. Their starving citizens will revolt against those in power. It's the instinct to survive.
How long do you think it will take the governments of the US and EU to decide that corn for ethanol is helping create this problem?
Do you really think our elected representatives will admit that subsidies and ethanol production targets were a mistake?
Depends on how much money the ethanol lobbyists put into it.
We aren't even using all of the ethanol that is produced right now - there is a glut. New production facilities have been cancelled
Company Halts Construction of BioTown Ethanol Plant
VeraSun Energy Corporation (NYSE: VSE), one of the nation's largest ethanol producers, today announced that it will suspend construction of its 110 million-gallon-per-year ethanol biorefinery in Reynolds, Ind., due to current market conditions
http://www.insideindianabusiness.com/newsitem.a...
If the business is not profitable, companies will not invest in new facilities
This artical is not just about the hunger in Haiti but about a whole range of problems caused by both rich and poor nations and by the greed and stupidity of us all. We here in the North and I'm not talking of Canada but most of the Northern Hemisphere are at fault of wasting much of the worlds resources on our lifestyles. We do not conserve energy, food or water, and we have a lifestyle that the world cannot afford. When we look for investments we look for the ones that will produce the best returns so many of the poor nations are overlooked unless they have resources that we need, this little rant covers some of our problems in the better off countries.
Now for the countries who are so poor, they have similiar problems they have the greedy who usually control the governments or gangs and business, and take advantage of the aid offered by the world and finially we have the problem offered in the last paragraph, the poor people who have very large families that they can't feed.
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Regardless of how one might judge the poor, this is the best argument for government helping them.
When things get bad enough, when they're hungry enough and they see no other recourse, they WILL rebel.
If they're strong enough to get up.
It occurs to me that people were laughing at Ted Turner's comments last week...
Rebellion in Haiti pretty much is a national past-time
I agree, there is a time when people need to be helped,,,,,,