The words of Fidel. In January I will not give any opinion on the policy of Fidel Castro. It is certain that his words weigh a ton on the consciences of all. Mariano Mazzacani
Only 11 days ago, January 19, entitled "It's already time to do something, I wrote:" The worst thing is that most of the solutions depend on the wealthiest and most developed countries, who will come to a situation that really are not in a position to face the world without crashes that have tried to draw "" I already speak of war, where the risks and consequences have been submitted by the wise and brilliant people, including many Americans. "I refer to the food crisis arising from economic factors and climate change, ostensibly already irreversible, as a result of human action, but that in any way, the human mind has a duty to deal with immediately. The problems that have taken shape now and quickly, through phenomena which are repeated in every continent: heat, forest fires, loss of crops in China in climate change, Russia (...) (...) progressive loss of reserves Water in the Himalayas, threatening India, China, Pakistani and other countries, excessive rainfall in Australia, which have inundated nearly one million square kilometers; unusual cold spells in Europe and impromptu [...] drought in Canada; unusual cold wave in this country and the United States U.S.. "I also spoke of the unprecedented rains in Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil. I have informed, in the reflection that:" The production of wheat, soybeans, corn, rice and many other cereals and pulses, which form the basis of world food , whose population is now, according to calculations by almost 6.9 billion people, and already is approaching the unprecedented figure of 7,000 million, of which more than a billion suffer from hunger and malnutrition, and are severely damaged by climate change, creating a serious problem in the world. "Saturday, January 29, I receive the daily bulletin with news of the Internet, featured an article by Lester R. Brown, published on the website Vía Orgánica, dated January 10, the contents of which, I believe, be widely disseminated. Its author is the most prestigious graduate and North American ecologist, warned that harmful effect of the growing and very important volume that CO_2 into the atmosphere. From his well reasoned article, I will only paragraphs that explain in a coherent manner its own points of view. " "At the beginning of the new year, the price of wheat reached unprecedented levels," "The world population is almost double that of 1970, and continue to grow at a rate of 80 million people every year. Tonight there will be 219,000 mouths more food at the table and meet the many empty plate. More are added 219,000 us tomorrow night.
At some point this incessant growth will start to be too much for the ability of farmers and the limits of terrestrial and water resources of the planet. "" The increase in the consumption of meat, milk and eggs in developing countries, growing fast , is unprecedented. "" In the U.S., where they were collected 416 million tons of grain in 2009, 119 million of those tons were sent to distilleriedi to produce ethanol fuel for cars. Those were enough to feed 350 million people tons per year. The huge U.S. investment in ethanol distilleries creates the conditions for direct competition between cars and people for the harvest of grain worldwide. In Europe, where good partedel park propelled moves with diesel fuel, there is an increasing demand of diesel fuel produced from plants, especially from rape and palm oil. This question crops are carriers of oil not only reduces the area available to produce food crops in Europe, but also accelerates the destruction of tropical forests in Indonesia and Malaysia, in favor of plantations producing palm oil. "" The annual growth in world grain consumption from an average of 21 million tons annually in the period 1990 to 2005, has reached 41 million tonnes per annum in the period between 2005 and 2010. Most This huge jump can be allocated to the investment in ethanol distilleries in the United States between 2006 and 2008. "While demand to double the annual growth of grain, there are new restrictions on the supply side, even when they have intensified the long-time, such as soil erosion. It is estimated that a third of the arable land of the lost world the cover crop as soon as the time necessary to the formation of new soil through natural processes, losing its inherent productivity. I am in process of forming two large masses of dust. A extends to the northwest of China, Mongolia and west of ' Central Asia, the other is in Central Africa. Each is much larger than the mass of dust that damaged the U.S. in the 30's decade username '. "The satellite images show a steady stream of dust storms that leave those regions and generally each of these carries millions of tons of valuable plant cover." "At the same time, the depletion of water quickly reduces the extent of irrigated areas in many parts of the world: this is a relatively recent phenomenon spurred large-scale use of mechanical pumps to extract ground water. Nell ' Currently, half the world's population lives in countries where groundwater levels down while excessive pumping depletes water. When a water supply is reduced, it must reduce the pumping at the rate of repositioning, if you do not want to turn into a fossil aquifer (not renewable), in which case the pump stops completely. But sooner or later descendants groundwater levels translate into higher food prices. "Extensions irrigated decrease in the Middle East and especially in Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq and possibly in Yemen. Saudi Arabia, which depended totally exhausted today from a fossil aquifer, for its self-sufficiency for the grain production experienced a fall free. Between 2007 and 2010, the Saudi wheat production is down to little more than two thirds, "" The Arab Middle East is the geographic region where the growing scarcity of water causes the greatest reduction in harvested grain. But water shortages are really high in India, where according to figures World Bank there are 175 million people who are fed grain produced by pumping excessive [...] In the United States, the other major grain producer in the world, you are reducing the area of \u200b\u200birrigated agricultural states in the fundamental such as California and Texas. The rise in temperature in turn makes it more difficult to increase the world harvest of grain with sufficient speed to get to the unprecedented rate of demand. Environmentalists are concerned that crops have their own rules are generally accepted: for every degree Celsius of temperature increase above the optimum level during the growing season, you can expect a 10% decline in the yield of grain. Another emerging trend that threatens food security is the melting of mountain glaciers. This is especially worrying nell'Himalayas and Tibet, where the ice that melts from the glaciers, feeds not only the great rivers of Asia during the dry season, as the Indus, Ganges, Mekong, Yangtze and Yellow River, but also the irrigation systems that depend on these rivers. Without this ice melting, the harvest of grain would experience a great fall and prices rise accordingly. Finally, long time, helmets, ice melt in Greenland and west Antarctica, combined with thermal expansion of the oceans, threatening to raise sea levels even six feet (1.83 mile NDT), during this century. In addition, an elevation of three feet would cause the flooding of lands where rice harvest in Bangladesh. Also would flood much of the Mekong Delta, which produces half the rice in Viet Nam, the second largest exporter of rice in the world. In total, there are approximately 19 river delta rice producers in Asia, where yields will be reduced considerably in the elevation of sea level. "
" The anxiety of recent weeks is only the beginning. It is not already more than a conflict between heavily armed great powers, but most of the lack of food and rising prices of foodstuffs (and political issues that this would lead) that threaten our global future. If governments do not proceed with the review of safety issues, using the costs of military use for the mitigation of climate change, water efficiency, conservation of soil and the stabilization of population, in all probability the world will face a future of greater instability climate and volatile food prices. If you continue to do things as now, food prices tend to rise only.
The existing world order the United States imposed after the Second World War, and has reserved for itself all the privileges.
Obama has no way to administer the hive they have created.
few days ago, the government collapsed in Tunis, where the U.S. had imposed neo-liberalism and were happy with their political prowess.
The word democracy had disappeared from the scene. It is unbelievable that now, when people are exploited and spread his blood assaults stores, Washington expressed his happiness over the fall. None ignores that the United States have transformed Egypt into their main ally in the Arab world. A large aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines, warships burned by U.S. and Israel, have crossed the Suez Canal to the Persian Gulf by many months, without the international press had information about what was happening. It was the Arab country that has received more supplies of weapons. Millions of young Egyptians are suffering from unemployment and lack of food caused the world economy, and Washington says that supports them. His Machiavellian is that while providing arms to the Egyptian government, the USAID funds administered opposition. Will the U.S. stop the wave revolution that shakes the Third World? The famous meeting in Davos, which has just ended, has become a Tower of Babel, and richer European states, led by Germany, Britain and France, similar only in their disagreements with the United States.
But we should not worry even a little bit, and the Secretary of State has promised once again that the U.S. help in rebuilding Haiti.
