WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Almost a third of the U.S. grain crop next year may be diverted from the family dinner table to the family car as fuel, putting upward pressure on food prices, a leading expert warned on Tuesday.
http://www.enn.com/agriculture/article/29370
they’d rather starve than stop driving
“they’d rather starve than stop driving”
its more appropriate to say that they’d rather poor people starve, than they stop driving.
I know that makes a more accurate summary but i feel pretty certain that most mainstream people really would rather starve than give up their cars… I know a bunch who probably would, anyway…
don’t forget the tortilla riots in Mexico
Here’s a link to a not so rosy view of the next year and a half or so.
http://www.todaysfinancialnews.com/videos/?channelID=9&showID=455
so where are we going to set up the commune when it all fails? ??? 
certain friends in the northwest have it more figured out than most. if only it didnt rain so damn much there…
i propose the desert… but that is just me hehehe
Wha!? I luv this rain!
I’m wondering what all these cries and denies for more oil is about Oo
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if only it didnt rain so damn much there…
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Wha!? I luv this rain! [/quote]
yah, in a certain way, the gentle grey days comfort me so much more than the bright, clear sunny skies with cold fast wind like today! the clouds sort of give us a blanket.
but don’t get me wrong, i love our friend the sun, too. 
[quote=“yarrow dreamer, post:12, topic:630”][quote author=Neighbor Scout link=topic=674.msg7697#msg7697 date=1200881548]
Wha!? I luv this rain!
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yah, in a certain way, the gentle grey days comfort me so much more than the bright, clear sunny skies with cold fast wind like today! the clouds sort of give us a blanket.
but don’t get me wrong, i love our friend the sun, too. :)[/quote]
I think I could get used to it… eventually… but I love these clear freezing days we’ve been having here in Virginia.
Well anyone watching the global stock crash happening?
the economic crash? oh thank Pan!
Dude, awesome, we’ve had som weather like that here th last several days. Freezy, breezy, refreshing weather that smells wonderful n bites lips . I got to play wit som frozen over puddle friends who let me slide on eir backs.
ps. to whom this may concern, I know this sounds a lil off topic.
Climate set for ‘sudden shifts’ -bbc news
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7227080.stm
They argue that society should not be lulled into a false sense of security by the idea that climate change will be a gradual process.
The work by an international team appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal.
“Our findings suggest that a variety of tipping elements could reach their critical point within this century under human-induced climate change,” said Professor Tim Lenton from the University of East Anglia, the lead researcher on the study.
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[b]The researchers have listed and ranked nine ecological systems that they say could be lost this century as a result of global warming. The nine tipping elements and the time it will take them to undergo a major transition are:
* Melting of Arctic sea-ice (about 10 years)
* Decay of the Greenland ice sheet (about 300 years)
* Collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet (about 300 years)
* Collapse of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation (about 100 years)
* Increase in the El Nino Southern Oscillation (about 100 years)
* Collapse of the Indian summer monsoon (about 1 year)
* Greening of the Sahara/Sahel and disruption of the West African monsoon (about 10 years)
* Dieback of the Amazon rainforest (about 50 years)
* Dieback of the Boreal Forest (about 50 years)[/b]
Don’t worry guys, i know obama will save us. dont forget to vote. 
Beautiful.
ONE YEAR?!?!? That is the scariest shit ever. Oh, Jesus.
Don't worry guys, i know obama will save us. dont forget to vote. :D:::just posted a new thread about the Democratic primaries::: HEY! You shut up! Stupid-face! :::cries:::
Food riots caused by rising prices across the world:
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/03/24/food.ap/index.html
http://cgi.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/04/14/world.food.crisis/index.html?iref=hpmostpop