A weird title, disjointed and unclear.
But so is the real world situation of government and NGO behaviour regarding energy utilization and planning, fossil fuel dependence and exploitation, CO2 and carbon controls and trading, globalization and world domination agendas and endless debates on all these, and thus we arrive at a small but important aspect – corn production and ethanol useage.
I might sum up the aforesaid debating as, not so much weird, disjointed and unclear, but perhaps confusing (or confused), a variety of topics and opinions and a wealth of genuine information and logic. Occasionally, a reader will offer some insight into a debate that raises my awareness and understanding and stands out as a ‘gem’.
Borrowing from WUWT‘s post ” Dispelling myths about global warming “, itself (the post and the blog in general), one of the many ‘gems’ from which we learn so much, I take the liberty of reproducing part of the ‘reader’s commentary’:
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A. Scott says:
One more for Richard Verney. From Rami Zurayk, professor of agricultural and food sciences at the American University of Beirut and author of Food, Farming and Freedom: Sowing the Arab Spring. He addresses pretty much exactly what I said:
Already, in Egypt and Yemen, more than 40% of the population live below the poverty line and suffer from some form of malnutrition. Most of the poor in these countries have no access to social safety nets.
“Bread riots” have been occurring regularly since the mid 1980s, following policies brought to us by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Among these were the reduction of agricultural subsidies and the encouragement of production of fruits and vegetables for export, at the expense of investing in local grain production. Export of value-added produce and the import of basic commodities such as wheat were monopolised by a small group of “entrepreneurs” protected by the security state who financially backed the ruling elite…. The US gave Egypt around $1.7bn last year, exceeded only by the $2.4bn it gave to Israel.
Not only are we providing the majority of their corn (and other) imports, we are sending huge sums of other aid.
Again – the “State” and the ruling elite have vast sums of oil money at their control, yet seemingly refuse to use it.
SO, I believe that there is much understanding to be gained here. “About many things”, misconceptions of CO2 “dangers”, corn production and ethanol useage, through to financial controllers and world politics.
Appropriate acknowledgements to WUWT and “A. Scott”, source linked here.
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