Environment, World Food Supply Linked - (Actual Headline!)

[hatrack]

No!

:silly:

Cape Town — Food scientists should follow the lead of climate scientists and petition the United Nations (UN) to safeguard the environment so the world can produce enough food to feed its rapidly growing population, the UK's former chief scientific adviser Sir David King told delegates to the 15th world congress of food science and technology yesterday.

The world's population, which stands at 6,86-billion according to the US Census Bureau, is projected to reach 9-billion by 2050.

The five-day conference, arranged by the International Union of Food Science & Technology (IUFoST), is the world's leading food science conference, and has attracted top researchers, policy makers, and food companies from 79 countries to discuss the latest developments in producing and storing food.

"This international body (the IUFoST) needs to be acting in the way the International Panel on Climate Change did and go to the UN and say we need action to conserve the ecosystem services that the world produces," said Sir David, who is now d irector of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford. Ecosystem services is a term used to describe the benefits we get from ecosystems such as grazing land and fresh water.

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http://allafrica.com/stories/201008240409.html

[SpiralHawk]

1. Corporotistas there peddling their 'we need GMO mutant food' BS

In 20 years we will look back upon the harm caused by corporate GMO mutant seeds and food and animals and all humanity will weep, mean, gnash teeth and rend garments.

I'd bet a sack of organic, whole-wheat doughnuts on it, alas.

[pscot]

2. The carrying capacity

of our little ball of dirt has been shrinking even as ourselves have been increasing. Our position is untenable and if there's a fallback scenario, we aren't being told about it. :tinfoilohat:

[phantom power]

3. Awesome

[Terry in Austin]

4. "enough food to feed its rapidly growing population"

This one has always knocked me out.

It's the same as asking "how are we going to get enough wood to feed this rapidly growing fire?"

[Nihil]

6. Yeah, that got me too!

Why not work on reducing the population instead?

:grr:

[n2doc]

5. Somewhere up in heaven, Mathus sits and waits for the inevitable..... n/t