Food Scarcity to Bring Down World Governments

http://www.naturalnews.com/026996_food_food_scarcity_food_shortages.html

Summary: This article begins warning of how large the threat of food scarcity is to the globe. It warns that states and governments will continue to collapse one after another. It is predicted that, eventually, global civilization will collapse too. The deteriorating state of the environment like the rising temperatures, falling water tables, and eroding soils contributes to the outcome of this prediction for the worse. Grain consumption has surpassed grain production in the past 6 of 9 years and the pace steadily grows. As the shortage of food depletes ever lower, prices will rise accordingly along with outraged citizens. The process to fix our ever growing problem would take time and there isn't a quick way to fix the predicament.

Connection: The topic that is related in this article to chapter 1 in the textbook is scarcity. With the food crisis progressing rapidly, sooner or later, everyone will be affected. Whether you are a high class business man or a lower class citizen, the problem will find its way to you. Companies will find that their expenses are sky rocketing and that they are forced to raises sale prices of their products in the same fashion. Depending on what kind of resource is scarce, the situation could become very dire. Given time, if society doesn't allow the resources to replenish, the scarcity problem not only reach food industries, but they'll soon cause problems to other industries in the same way.

Reflection: I agree that there are many ways that we are harming the environment. Water is also a major issue among scarcity among our society and as one of the top countries in the world to use this much water, I think we have a responsibility to preserve this precious resource. Upon reading this article, it's not that shocking to find out that the world we are living in is heading towards a problematic future. Ignoring the warnings of green house gases and global warming won't contribute to putting our future back on track. I think this article and its prediction is very accurate to how our futures will shape up. In the future, there will be global chaos, just as predicted.