The Global Food and Water Crisis

In a paper published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, four British scientists report that agriculture accounts for 80-90% of all freshwater used by humans, that most of that is in crop production, and that in many areas, this water use is unsustainable. As a result, they say that farmers in many countries are now faced with legislative restrictions on use of water, noting that the Chinese government has set a target of a reduction of 20% in water use in agriculture by the year 2020, such that if food security for the region is not to be threatened, this must be achieved without a loss in production. So how is this global food and water crisis to be met and overcome?

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Science & Technology

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• Food
• water
• global
• warming
• carbon
• dioxide
• CO2Science
• environment

[ilovecarbondioxide]

This isn't news to most real scientists, climatologists, and even farmers all around the world who burn fuel to produce more CO2 so their crops grow larger and faster.

But it's not well known by regular people who are bombarded by warming propaganda 24/7 from enviro extremists, the IPCC and its leader Al Gore, hysterical media, as well as politicians looking to cash in.

It's amazing that the world can so easily fall into a hoax so large, and people ACTUALLY believe that CO2 is a "pollutant".

[naisayd]

I agree completely. CO2 is great. We should create as much as possible and get it in to the air as soon as we can. Since we also need to maintain the air pressure, maybe we should remove all the oxygen, so all the food crops will have someplace to put the oxygen they create.

[Lubobuba]

There we go. That explains a lot. Less Co2, less crop production, more hungry people. Good job.