Civilization? Get ready for a spanking.

[luckytroll]

Or, thank goodness for rice, and potatoes.

For many parts of the world, our civilization has been based in large part on eating grass seeds. Grain. Either we eat it, or our animals do.

To mess with grain is to shake the foundations of human civilization.

We do have stand-ins for our starch. Tubers, beans. But grass seeds are huge. A Global rice disaster would mean starvation for billions.  A wheat failure could be almost as bad for the poor.

Guess whats about to happen?

Bread is about to get rather expensive in the next decade.

Comments

[iambic-cub.livejournal.com]

That looks like an opportunity! If North America can figure out a way to protect our own crops while everybody else's crops fail, well, we just might have a solution to all those economic problems that keep popping up. We can exploit world hunger to support our lifestyle!

In the mean time, I wonder how jam tastes on corn chips. We may be using tortillas for everything.

[moria73.livejournal.com]

Corn prices are rising faster, and corn supplies are getting lower, than wheat because of demand from the new biofuels industry.