Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Water



Were Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) crops created because of the declining levels of potable water for the production of healthy food for the world population? The less water needed to grow a staple crop the more water saved to feed the people in cities in the long run. Kind of like a business venture cutting the cost to develop a product to maximize profits.
I threw away a lot of food today that had spoiled, like some tomatoes, avocados, plums, a half a head of lettuce and some watermelon. I thought to myself such a waste of food and started to remember the commercials of starving children in Africa from the eighties. How many people are wasting food in the United States? I probably threw some GMO food in the garbage.
According to a report by USA today, the natural water tables underground across the world are being depleted faster than they are resupplied. For instance, in Punjab India, farmers are unable to control their own destiny due to limited water supplies and committing suicide. Moreover, I\in Southwest Kansas communities are tearing themselves apart fighting over water rights to produce edible food for the cities in the United States.
In addition, the process of fracking in the United States to produce oil domestically in order to minimize U.S. dependency on foreign oil is causing havoc on our domestic water supply. The world is running out of fresh water to grow nutritious food for humanity.
Will a world government be needed in order to control water supplies around the globe in order to produce food for cities or will the need to produce crops to feed cities result in the further exploitation of third world resources.
For instance, take the product Almond milk produced in California and other sections of the agriculture infrastructure of the United States. Almond milk cuts the cost of the production of a milk product by downsizing the reliance on cows ( that use a massive amount of water to feed [the production of grain] and quench the thirst of cows) and using a plant to produce a healthy alternative to cow milk or is it?
Today, I look at the desire of the United States and China to compete over the natural resources of Africa. Special forces soldiers have already been killed in the region: https://abcnews.go.com/.../us-soldiers-killed.../story... To finish my rant. Something is going to have to give in order to feed humanity. I see a global totalitarian government being generated in order to control the actions of the people and determine the use of natural resources globally just to feed the people.

No comments:

Post a Comment