Earth Policy Institute: Food is the new oil. Land is the new gold. The world food situation is deteriorating. Grain stocks have dropped to a dangerously low level. The World Food Price Index has doubled in a decade. The ranks of the hungry are expanding. Political unrest is spreading. On the demand side of the food equation, there will be 219,000 people at the dinner table tonight who were not there last night. And some 3 billion increasingly affluent people are moving up the food chain, consuming grain-intensive livestock...
URL: http://ecowatch.org/2012/saving-civilization-is-not-a-spectator-sport/
Enclosure: http://www.earth-policy.org/images/uploads/book_items/FPEP_SlidesEarthPolicyInstitute.pptx
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