Food security, world food shortages, Peak Food, Peak Oil

John Gossop, farmer and author of Famine in the West, explains why food prices are rising and why there will soon be food shortages even in developed countries. Peak Food, oil and gas shortages, climate change, increasing world population with millions in Asia eating more meat so needing more land per person when there is less, water shortages, competition from ethenol and biomass, falling fish stocks and crop land losses are all threats to food security. By Peakfood1.

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• climate
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• peak
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[Peakfood1]

Thankyou very much for your comments. Definately food for thought.

[gleusda]

John, I applaud your attempt to raise this issue and please keep it up.

But it will take (as we are starting to see) a rise in the consumers food bill before we in the west appreciate the scale of the crisis.

A Rising World Population of 6 Billion to 9 Billion, and a long-lasting, huge economic slump will mean that a real fight for resources will soon be upon us.

If we can't peacefully prepare for that now, then it will be a free for all fight and this World will be on a very frightening path

[Peakfood1]

Thanks for your comment, Gleusda. I completely agree with what you say.

[jdaviescoates]

Shame his site currently isn't working at the moment. Thankfully you can get to some of site using google cache :)

[Peakfood1]

Hi, it must have been a temporary blip when it didn't work. It's working now. Best wishes,

[postpeakman]

interesting observation Cliff.

since I woke up to "peak everything" about a year ago (props to Richard Heinberg) I have been noticing these kinds of unsustainable human constructions everywhere.

I am frequently the only pedestrian as I walk home from work through a park full of beautiful but non fruit- or nut- bearing trees. Perhaps 5% of the cars on the road have passengers.

I am still living in the world the way it is now, but with an eye on the future...

[texasgringooo]

People dont understand the danger of government dependents. Socialists have created a class of gov dependents so they can have more votes. These individuals are brainwashed into believing that they deserve to receive food and supplies for free from the government and that it is someone elses responsibility to supply them. When the food and supplies are no longer available they will still feel entitled to getting food from others and they will rob and kill to get what they need.

[texasgringooo]

So even if you own a farm or have equipment you need to prepare by having stores of canned food, vitamin supplements and sprouting seeds and equipment. Make sure you have a water source. If you have a River or Lake near, get plenty of firewood or coals so you can boil water or get filtration equipment. And if you live in a free country, get guns and ammo, if you live in a nanny state, move to a free country. The government dependents will be looking for you to supply their needs.

[texasgringooo]

Widespread panic will cause oil refinery productivity collapse. Imagine everyone rushes to look for supplies, with oil industry workers among them. The point is that this is a situation that can get out of hand because people simply do not know how to make food. If you have food production equipment and animals if there is a panic you need to figure out how to hide them from the roving looters who will be looking for food.

[Tressco]

Agenda 21

[Sharkwhisperer]

On one hand it is true, that the future of food looks bad. Already 975 million people are food insecure, which is morally unacceptable. And the situation for water, oil, biofuels, phosphorous, population....

On the other hand this reasoning might be too simplistic. And seems like a return to Malthus. For instance in Africa labor is a constraining factor in agricuture. More people may mean more productivity.

I must say this is an interesting issue, worth debating about.

[DonQuixotedeKaw]

Famine in the west is also inevitable. Govs won't curb idiots w/clown car vaginae. The aquifers are about dried up. The glaciers here already gone. Even in this depression, consumer madness reigns. Ag equipment is all geared to industrial farming. Gas guzzlers still rule. Bio-fuel insanity. Monsanto screws everyone. Farmers heads up asses. Dominant fundi-repugs sing denial. Atheism=brains; illegal to hold office. Edu systems still pushing brain parasites. People with solutions cannot be heard.

[jarrodm2002]

ya and wasting paper in the process...not to mention the energy cost and lose of producing that book....and the trees lost creating the paper, gas for the trucks and planes for delivery, packaging supplies...on and on and on. what a great example of how to use finite resources he is.

[OUTOFGAS88]

from potato famine to energy famine

[artnuwa11]

Biodynamic models of agriculture show an ability to grow on previously abused land. It is organic, but many are afraid to switch because they ahve been brainwashed by the agricultural chemical co. If the soil is treated in the right way the plants don't need very much water and also are disease and pest resistant.