Posted on 04/27/2022 4:52:06 AM PDT by MtnClimber
What woukd we do without "experts"?
According to a report in the UK tabloid the Daily Star, some scientists are now predicting that the world will run out of food in 27 years. 27 years and 251 days, to be more precise…as of Sunday, April 24th, 2022. (Start your doomsday countdown at home!)
So, that’s it, the science is settled, apparently. We are done by 2050.
But, what if, say, 26 years from now half of us go on strict diets and limit our caloric intake…or 60% of us are by then vegan…or 10% of the projected population has been killed off by Lyme Disease/Islamic radicals/leftist economic policies? Might we actually then have 27 years and 351 days left? Or, dare we hope, perhaps even 29 years and 5 days left? Could we even make it to 2055?
“Sociobiologist” Edward Wilson [known professionally as E.O. Wilson] is quoted in the report saying, “There are limits to Earth’s capacity to feed humanity. Even if everyone on the planet agreed to become vegetarian, the world’s farmland could not support the need. The world population will be too big to feed itself. By then, there will be almost 10 billion people on the planet and the food demand will have increased by 70% compared to what we needed in 2017. The limit to how many people Earth can feed is set at 10 billion at the absolute maximum. The constraints of the biosphere are fixed, there’s no wiggle room here.”
Wilson added: “It’s unlikely that everyone will agree to stop eating meat, so the actual limit is lower. And each nation is different, but still there is an excess amount of food being eaten and wasted every day.
Some scientists predicted we would run out of oil.
Divide that by 10
Cue up the idiot AOC video showing how amazed she is at lettuce growing! “It’s food, it comes out of the ground!”
No cake on my 81st birthday? WTF?
I know, queue!
Wait till Wilson starts talking about 10 billion peoples poops. He gets apoplectic before breakfast.
Didn’t we all die in the 1980s famine? Isn’t that what Paul Erlichman predicted?
I can agree to just eat bacon.
Oil and food are interrelated.
In the American system of food production and delivery, it takes about 1 calorie of fossil fuel per 1 calorie of food on the diner’s table.
Tillage, fertilizer, insecticides, herbicides, cultivation, harvest, transportation, processing, freezing, canning, manufacture of packaging, warehousing, cold storage, wholesaling, distribution, supermarket operation, restaurant operation including cooking, HVAC, lighting, etc.
There’s always soylent green
Well, once Dimjo & Putin come to agreement as to when & where to start their nuclear exchange, they may be able to bring the world’s population down to what E.O. Wilson and the other ‘experts’ consider a sustainable level.
Yawn...
We were supposed to be starving from lack of food decades ago according to reports in the 70s..
One solution would be to stop burning our food for fuel.
Soylent Green.
Well,the world’s gonna end in 9.25 years so food’s not an issue.
I’m surprised that it took 37 minutes to come up with the most obvious answer. LOL!
People. People eating people. Are the luckiest people, in the world.
87.395621% of statistics are made up on the spot.
Good.
Get it all over with, just to shut up the fearmongers.
The value of Ukraine as the provider of foodstuffs to large segments of the world is often overlooked.
And if climate change is real, then huge portions of Russia are going to be cultivable land.
Just throwing it out there.
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