What’s Ahead: Food The New Oil, Clean Water The New Gold; Americans Need To Prepare For Extreme Weather Patterns

(Oct 13) One of the world’s leading environmentalists issued a warning that the global food supply system could collapse at any point, leaving hundreds of millions more people hungry, sparking widespread riots and bringing down governments.

“We are beginning a new chapter. We will see food unrest in many more places. Armed aggression is no longer the principal threat to our future. The overriding threats to this century are climate change, population growth, spreading water shortages and rising food prices.”

Record heatwaves and droughts in the US and other major food-exporting countries had hit harvests badly and could trigger a major hunger crisis in 2013 because world grain reserves are so dangerously low – the lowest level since 1974.

In the last 10 years prices have doubled as demand for food has increased with a rapidly growing world population and millions have switched to animal-based diets, which require more grain and land. UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) say it’s unlikely the prices will normalize anytime soon. Even if things do not boil over this year, by next summer many more will be exposed to the effects of anything that hurts production.

“An unprecedented period of world food security has come to an end. The world has lost its safety cushions and is living from year to year. This is the new politics of food scarcity. We are moving into a new food era, one in which it is every country for itself.”

The ever greater number of weather-related crises suggests strongly that climate change is beginning to bite and that the heatwaves, droughts and excessive rainfall around the world in the last few years have not been a blip, but a new reality. Every 1C above the optimum in the growing season equates to roughly a 10% decline in grain yields. Simply put, rising earth’s temperature is devastating food supplies.

Sources: The Guardian_1, The Guardian_2

What about water scarcity? Water resources are being depleted at record rates and yet not a single country has mobilized to reduce water use.

Persistent Droughts Plaguing Much of the World; Water Shortages Could Cause Wars

Revelation 6:5-8 (HCSB) The Third Seal 5 When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!”And I looked, and there was a black horse. The horseman on it had a set of scales in his hand. 6 Then I heard something like a voice among the four living creatures say, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius—but do not harm the olive oil and the wine.”

A whole day’s work for a little wheat or barley? It may be difficult for us to imagine food being so expensive in the near future but that’s also what the expert is predicting. We’ve warned about these things for a few years now.

“Food will become more valuable than oil. Climate change is about to become dramatic as the polar ice is being melted… the World Food Bank is almost depleted, and there will be no relief in re-building the needed staples. The worst is yet to come, and is non-preventable by man; the most this dying generation can do is to ration what little will be available. Food and sanitary water will become more valuable than gold or silver and will be reserved for those of the elite evil class.”

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