On 05/25/2010 05:22 PM, bpnjensen wrote:
A drop of as little as 25% in US food production in one year would
have devasting effects in many regions, and should the drought
continue for 3-5 years as was the case in the 30s, we would see
anarchy in many areas.

CURRENT World populations simply cannot be supported indefinetly, much
less continued growth.

It;s a ticking timebomb.

Bingo, and the big aquifers - like the Ogalalla under the southern
Great Plains - have been drained almost dry too. We really need to
reel back our numbers, nationally by at least half, and worldwide by
an order of magnitude.
There is an upside. Global warming has resulted in Southern farmers,
after they've got their crops in, trucking equipment up to the Yukon.

We've all heard of the permafrost melting. What we dont here is that
land is now being put into production of oats, rye, and potatoes. Same
deal in Siberia. Chinese workers have been going up into Southern
Siberia to put in veggies, and the Mongolian stock breeders are
delighted with the increase in beef production.

Liberals forget the melted Arctic ocean evaporates water ice didnt, and
now central Asia gets rain. The Canadian and Russian grain belts have
moved over 100 miles north, vastly increasing the amount of fertile
farmland over that lost in Bangladesh and other such lowlands.

But nobody has figured out what use to make of all the tropical farmers
who no longer have viable land to work.

Global warming has also resulted in more rain coming up from Baja thru
AZ & NM, and thence onto the Great Plains. The Ogallola is much less of
a problem.

And while all that corn has lotsa carbs, the quality of the protein sux
and that has led to even more stupid Mexicans. The corn they grew was
much better for mental development, and if they switched to oats, there
would be a dramatic improvement in mental development.

50-100 years ago, Northern kids were raised on oatmeal, southern kids on
grits. And we see the much higher academic performance of the Northern
state universities back then.

The long term logical solution is to have the talented women donate eggs
for in vitro. Over a 18 month cycle a woman can produce 300 eggs to be
fertilized by more promising Y chromosomes. Which have been collected
from Med schools; altho I think there's some effort to get more
diversity as from business and law schools.

While I'm all for improving the education and socialization of kids of
welfare moms, you need to start with more promising DNA.