Guardian: If you're wondering whether the US drought will create a global food crisis, the answer's easy. It's yes, because there's a food crisis already. The latest year for which we have figures is 2010, when 925 million people were declared malnourished. Soon after the number was announced, the World Bank corrected it upward, and recently said that the number of hungry people is "almost 1 billion". Make no mistake: the US drought is fierce. In June this year, out of a possible 171,442 temperature records,...
URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/24/us-politicians-regulate-finance-drought-food
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