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- Extreme Floods / Covid-19 / China Food Shortage Fears Thu, 6 Aug 20, 7:00amChina is not having a good year. Following China's largely self inflicted Covid-19 disaster, and months of extreme rain pushing floodwaters against the structurally questionable Three Gorges dam, failure of which could wash...
- Food Prices and Ethanol Mandates Sun, 29 Mar 20, 4:00pmBy Andy May This post is a follow up to my previous post on biofuels, here we discuss the impact of biofuels on food prices in more detail. Ethanol has been produced in large quantities in the United States for fuel since...
- Climate change may have caused the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire Wed, 10 Feb 16, 3:20amNo matter how humans may struggle to separate ourselves from the natural world, we are inevitably subject to its rule. No empire is too grand to be immunized from the effects of a powerful nature. The Byzantine Empire, also...
- The world is perilously close to global food shock Fri, 26 Jun 15, 1:30amA new report envisions a nightmare scenario in which just three climate change-driven disasters could lead to global food shock, resulting in food riots as the price of basic crops skyrockets and stock markets experience...
- Study Links Ethanol Policy to Food Price Increases, Mideast Turmoil Sat, 9 Feb 13, 9:59amA report published in October 2012 by the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) links soaring corn and agricultural commodity prices to food riots and turmoil in North Africa and the Middle East...
- Ten Reasons Why High Oil Prices are a Problem Mon, 28 Jan 13, 7:11pmA person might think from looking at news reports that our oil problems are gone, but oil prices are still high.