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 Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 11:38 am Post subject: Ted Turner=Climate Change will change us into Cannibals... |
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With biofuels, chemtrails and hyperinflation in basic food prices affecting ho we live Ted Turner (of CNN fame) not Bundy (although I cant tell the difference any more) states we will all perish.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
04/03/08
Failure to address global warming will have us all dead or eating each other by mid-century.
So says Ted Turner, the restaurateur, environmentalist and former media mogul whose controversial comments have earned him the nickname "Mouth of the South."
If steps aren't taken to stem global warming, "We'll be eight degrees hotter in 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow," Turner said during a wide-ranging, hour-long interview with PBS's Charlie Rose that aired Tuesday.
"Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals," said Turner, 69. "Civilization will have broken down. The few people left will be living in a failed state — like Somalia or Sudan — and living conditions will be intolerable."
"We're too many people; that's why we have global warming," he said. "Too many people are using too much stuff."
Admitting that he's "always suffered from foot-in-the-mouth disease," Turner added, "I've gotten a lot better, though. It's been a long time since anybody caught me saying something stupid."
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/news/stories/2008/04/03/turner_0404.h tml |
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The unfortunate thing is that Nutcases like him run the world's media.
This guy along with another nutter Sumner Redstone controlled Viacom and Time Warner using these massive networks to promote their beliefs.
There is an obesity epidemic in the UK and USA so there is clearly too much food.
The European Union has massive food mountains which it dumps to avoid collapsing the price.
And the real reason people in places like Eithiopea are starving is because we make them grow coffee and them pay them about 6 pence a kilo for what sells for £16 a kilo over here.
In Zimbabwe they are starving because of sanctions but in any case the farmland was mainly used for tobacco not food.
So Ted Turner nee Fonda is talking * as usual.
But problem is his eugenics buddies are growing in number.
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| I agree with Turner, except it won't be 8 degrees higher in the space of 30 years, 5 degree at the maximum, but even that will cause huge destabilization. |
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Didn't Ted also suggest a one child policy (voluntary of course), for all of the modern civilised world?
Maybe thats why he has 5 kids, if he gets hungry he could always eat one and make himself a self fulfilling prophet! |
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Hyperinflation in prices of staples appear to be the main concern the world over.
In one week there have been riots in Egypt, Ivory Coast and the Haitian parliament has been overrun by hungry people. The media is keeping it under tabs as usual. Only limited info has appeared in the press...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7331921.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/09/11
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Food price rises threaten global security - UN
Hunger riots will destabilise weak governments, says senior official
This article appeared in the Guardian on Wednesday April 09 2008 on p1 of the Top stories section. It was last updated at 09:55 on April 09 2008.
Rice farmer in Indonesia.
A farmer sprays pesticide at a rice field in the Karawang regency, Indonesia. Photograph: Beawiharta/Reuters
Rising food prices could spark worldwide unrest and threaten political stability, the UN's top humanitarian official warned yesterday after two days of rioting in Egypt over the doubling of prices of basic foods in a year and protests in other parts of the world.
Sir John Holmes, undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs and the UN's emergency relief coordinator, told a conference in Dubai that escalating prices would trigger protests and riots in vulnerable nations. He said food scarcity and soaring fuel prices would compound the damaging effects of global warming. Prices have risen 40% on average globally since last summer.
"The security implications [of the food crisis] should also not be underestimated as food riots are already being reported across the globe," Holmes said. "Current food price trends are likely to increase sharply both the incidence and depth of food insecurity."
He added that the biggest challenge to humanitarian work is climate change, which has doubled the number of disasters from an average of 200 a year to 400 a year in the past two decades.
As well as this week's violence in Egypt, the rising cost and scarcity of food has been blamed for:
· Riots in Haiti last week that killed four people
· Violent protests in Ivory Coast
· Price riots in Cameroon in February that left 40 people dead
· Heated demonstrations in Mauritania, Mozambique and Senegal
· Protests in Uzbekistan, Yemen, Bolivia and Indonesia
UN staff in Jordan also went on strike for a day this week to demand a pay rise in the face of a 50% hike in prices, while Asian countries such as Cambodia, China, Vietnam, India and Pakistan have curbed rice exports to ensure supplies for their own residents.
Officials in the Philippines have warned that people hoarding rice could face economic sabotage charges. A moratorium is being considered on converting agricultural land for housing or golf courses, while fast-food outlets are being pressed to offer half-portions of rice.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation says rice production should rise by 12m tonnes, or 1.8%, this year, which would help ease the pressure. It expects "sizable" increases in all the major Asian rice producing countries, especially Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Burma, the Philippines and Thailand.
Holmes is the latest senior figure to warn the world is facing a worsening food crisis. Josette Sheeran, director of the UN World Food Programme, said last month: "We are seeing a new face of hunger. We are seeing more urban hunger than ever before. We are seeing food on the shelves but people being unable to afford it."
The programme has launched an appeal to boost its aid budget from $2.9bn to $3.4bn (£1.5bn to £1.7bn) to meet higher prices, which officials say are jeopardising the programme's ability to continue feeding 73 million people worldwide.
Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank, said "many more people will suffer and starve" unless the US, Europe, Japan and other rich countries provide funds. He said prices of all staple food had risen 80% in three years, and that 33 countries faced unrest because of the price rises.
In the UK, Professor John Beddington, the new chief scientific adviser to the government, used his first speech last month to warn the effects of the food crisis would bite more quickly than climate change. He said the agriculture industry needed to double its food production, using less water than today.
He said the prospect of food shortages over the next 20 years was so acute it had to be tackled immediately: "Climate change is a real issue and is rightly being dealt with by major global investment. However, I am concerned there
is another major issue along a similar time-scale - that of food and energy security." |
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