Should we keep feeding the world?

Question

According to latest GHG emissions, based on GWP the only net increase has came from (nitrous oxide), used in agriculture.

Answer 1

We may have no choice in the matter of feeding the world.

If we can't feed ourselves - how can we feed the world?

Food Rationing Confronts Breadbasket of the World:

http://nysun.com/news/food-rationing-con...

BTW - all this cooler weather is having an effect on crops.

Also - your link comes back Server Not Found ?!?!

Still not working!

Did you catch the 10,000 Pot Heads?

http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2008/apr...

Wanna bet they are the same ones at Earth Day & AWG rallies?

Answer 2

Its our last stand with producing anything, the rest of the production jobs are gone to other countries.

I say we triple the food prices on grain to the rest of the world to off set the gas prices until we get the environazis to let us drill at home!

Answer 3

I support Sam Kinison's take on African starvation. We've  sent trucks full of rice into the dessert for over fifty years. The population fo these "camps" has grown exponentially.  As he said," send empty trucks, get 'em the h**l out of the dessert.. There's no food in the dessert !" oh, oh, oh!

Answer 4

We're feeding the world?  Well we sure aren't doing a very good job if that's what we're supposed to be doing.

Answer 5

Source please? Because I think you're just making stuff up.

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Edit: Sure I will. My mind is like Katz's Deli: it never closes!

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Edit: Yes, we should keep feeding the world.

Come now man, out with it!

Answer 6

It is hard to reconcile your assertion above with the figure below, seeing as CO2 is still increasing and is an order of magnitude larger than N2O.  Still, the problem is not so much agriculture as the use of farmed grain to produce beef.  Growing grain to make beef fast is incredibly resource intensive and wasteful of grain calories.  

So, no, we shouldn't stop feeding the world.  What we should do is stop stuffing so many burgers into our already double-chinned faces.  I'm not preaching abstinence so much as self-control.  There is no reason why meat has to be be the staple food in an industrialized country.  None.

Edit:  It is weird that you can find all sorts of news releases touting those numbers (correct link:

http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/1605/ggrpt/c...

) and the original EIA release said they would be updated in November 2007.  However, the Nov. 07 update still lists the 2006 numbers as preliminary.  My hunch is that when they did the reanalysis the CO2 emissions were in fact higher than in 2005.  We'll probably see that in May when they release the numbers for 2007.

Answer 7

We should teach them to feed themselves, that would be the noble thing to do.

Answer 8

Yes, I'm heavily invested in agriculture ETF's, so when crop prices increase, I make money because I bought those crops at below market price.

As more and more crops are being plowed under to make more room for corn based ethanol, my bottom line just keeps getting fatter.

This global warming scam is very profitable if you know where to place your money.