Asia eats all the food

Joey Sawyer April 9^{th 12:30}

"I welcome economic growth in India and China, but I also hope they will invest in agriculture because these two countries account for 2.2 billion people out of 6 billion," says Jacques Diouf at a conference in New Delhi. Diouf is the head of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN. As these places develop an appetite similar to that of the US and Europe they literally eat up all the worlds food, and at a time where production is at a long time low. Riots erupt in Egypt and Cameroon at unaffordable food costs, just to name a couple of places. Haiti is also suffering the price of food stuffs. The fact that our global economy depends on some nations efficiently growing excess food and transporting it to more needy nations is not helping the situation at all either. The cost that has increased more than food is that of fuel. People's that cannot sustain themselves without importing food will likely die out soon. According to Diouf's study there is only enough food stores in the world to make a difference for about twelve weeks.

India and China are rapidly developing infrastructure and building on what we might call the American Dream. Unfortunately it is not only unsustainable for our meager quarter billion people, but is exponentially less sustainable for their population of eight times that. If these countries continue to build themselves in the image of our industrial revolutionary age they may very well destroy themselves and other large chunks of humanity that have depended on them in the past for something as essential as food. Imperialism only works if the elite class remains small and the exploited class remains large. There is no room at the top for all of humanity, an upside-down people-pyramid will quickly collapse and many people will die. It is that simple.