Reply #6: The Greatest Challenge to Humanity lies directly before us

[jmcgowanjm]

World Grain supply at 59 days.
Mr. Brown thinks that the drop in Chinese grain production
will soon cause the country to enter world food markets in a
big way, driving up prices in much the same way that the
Soviets did in the early 1970s when they cornered the U.S.
grain supply.

And Brown doesn't correlate his studies with peakoil
issues.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040522/FAMINE22//?query=GRAIN+HARVEST


CALGARY (CP) - Conventional natural gas production
in
Alberta likely peaked three years ago and a yearly
decline
of about 2.5 per cent should be expected, the
province's
energy regulator said Thursday in its annual
reserves
report.

http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/business/story.html?id=401891d9-dc30-4ecf-89ac-7d083a3896bf

So you can forget about tar sands production filling
the oil demand gap.
Not enough water, not enough gas.

And talking about lions reminds me of an African proverb:

Only when lions become writers will hunters no longer
be heroes.