The King of Starvation -
Barack Obama
It is reasonable to estimate that
global
biofuel production has killed, at minimum, more people worldwide than all wars and acts of terrorism combined during the
1993 to 2013 time frame, a death toll of approximately 1.76 million. Biofuel deaths are a very hot,
politically charged topic, and I am trying to get an official ON THE RECORD number I
can quote rather than disseminate the many horrific "off the record"
estimates I keep getting from publicity shy officials and food supply/world hunger specialists. It is
certainly reasonable to estimate that global biofuel
production
has been, at the very least, a contributing factor
(one of many factors) in at least 100 million human deaths since
1993. The number of
deaths where biofuels were the predominant deciding life or death
factor is much more difficult to ascertain. I do not trust large
scale phenomena based statistics, but I am forced by circumstance to
seek them out to put global biofuel
production into an historical perspective. Certainly, after the
renewable energy craze has subsided, future historians will look back
on this period of world history and
come up with statistics that will be both staggering and
frightening. Sleepwalking to Starvation is my suggestion as a
good title to use for one of the many books which will inevitably be
written about this dark time when the uniformed masses became
disastrously enthralled with snake oil energy solutions.
We can use a
reasonable
comparison of Obama's policies to Chairman Mao Tse-tung's infamous Great Leap
Forward five year
economic plan, which is estimated to have killed between 20 and 43
million Chinese over a short three year period. Mao had faddish, unscientific ideas about how to grow food, and he banned
private farms in 1958 in his shift to communes and greater industrial
output at the expense of agriculture. This led to a 15% drop in
grain production in China in 1959, and another 10% reduction in
1960. That
does not sound like much of a dip in food production, but it was enough
to starve
millions.
The global biofuel disaster is a vastly larger event that has displaced
food production in the U.S.A., Canada, Europe, Asia, South America,
Africa, Australia, and in many small island nations. Biofuels
have been produced for many years, and the diversion of agricultural
resources to feeding cars and trucks instead of people has been
enormous and is
ongoing. When you jack up the price of fertilizer and farmland
all over the world, higher food prices inevitably result. High
food prices have the same net effect as outright food shortages.
If you live on less than $2.00 per day and do not have enough money to
buy sufficient food in the marketplace, the food will never reach your
stomach.
Going against all the scientific and economic
evidence, and ignoring pleas from hunger fighting
organizations, environmental groups, and
food
producers (see: followthescience.org),
President Barack Obama has increased the allowable ethanol content of
gasoline to 15%, which will further escalate food price inflation,
damage engines, increase greenhouse gas release, speed topsoil erosion,
and use up our finite supplies of phosphates needed to produce
fertilizer. Obama has done this to please giant ethanol
distillers like Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), who financed Obama’s presidential campaign,
and
provided Obama with corporate jets used to crisscross the nation
selling his mathematically impossible energy policy.
Instead of
putting food supply security and people first, Obama has put corporate
profits first. All American presidents since Jimmy Carter are to
blame for the biofuel disaster, as well as all of the world leaders who
have mandated biofuel production. No leader of any
nation has done more to raise the cost of food than Barack Obama and
his predecessor, George W. Bush.
The global biofuel disaster, led by
cheerleader Barack Obama, is a vastly larger event that has
displaced food production in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia,
South America, Africa, Australia, and in many small island
nations. Biofuels have been produced for decades by many
countries, and the diversion of agricultural resources to feeding cars
instead of people has been enormous and is ongoing. The United
States is currently using over 41% of its corn crop to
produce ethanol, which does nothing to reduce our dependence on oil
because it is inherently energy inefficient to manufacture ethanol from
corn. Biofuels are a dead end technology as it is even more
energy inefficient and thus expensive to produce ethanol from
cellulose, which is the false hope of biofuel advocates.
Agricultural economist William Jaeger studied all forms of biofuels
extensively and concluded that "Given currently available technologies,
it is difficult to see the net contribution of biofuels rising above 1%
of our current fossil fuel energy consumption – for either Oregon or
the U.S." [see PDF]
Globally, topsoil is being lost ten times
faster
than it is being replenished, and 30% of the world's arable land has
become unproductive in the past 40 years due to erosion. The USA
is in serious jeopardy of losing adequate food growing capacity within
100 years or less due to erosion. Growing corn for ethanol is
dramatically increasing the rate of topsoil erosion in our prime
Midwest growing areas. Ask biofuel
advocates if helping to destroy the ability of future generations to
grow food is a worthy environmental goal.
Foolish political mandates combined with bad
weather turned Mao's well meaning economic plan into one of the
greatest famines in world history. There is no historical record
of anyone warning Chairman Mao that his ideas would cause mass
starvation. Barack Obama has been repeatedly warned by his own
advisers that biofuel production harms the environment and skyrockets
food prices, and Obama himself admitted on NBC's Meet The Press to the late Tim
Russert that ethanol production was causing food price
inflation. Therefore, Barack Obama is even more culpable
than Chairman Mao.
Why does television
news refuse to cover this
greatest crime of the 21st century? Part of
the reason is that American television is also guilty of promoting the
biofuel
disaster. Mike Wallace aired a seminal pro-biofuel segment on 60 Minutes years ago, and 60 Minutes has
no stomach to admit their error in judgment. Our media
reports endless stories about Hollywood celebrities, but nothing about
the deaths of millions caused by Obama's suicidal and homicidal
agricultural policies. Our media ignores the fact that
the United States Department of Agriculture is no longer protecting the
human food supply, and has become an ethanol profits lobbying
organization. The Environmental Protection Agency
has also become a sham, a rubber stamp for Obama's
reckless policies
that have increased greenhouse gas release more than any new activity
of man.
Grain prices are skyrocketing
and the cost of chicken,
beef, pork, eggs, milk, cheese and other grain dependent foods will
also rise, as will all foods that require fertilizer to
grow. Biofuel production uses tremendous amounts of fertilizers,
which causes water pollution and drives up the cost of all fertilizer,
thus raising the cost of all vegetables and most fruits. Biofuel
production hurts everyone in the long run, even those who are currently
making money producing biofuels. None of us will escape the
environmental damage and political unrest caused by this crime, which
has killed far more people than all acts of terrorism and the Iraq and
Afghanistan wars combined.
Please support and promote The National Food Security Act, which is needed to protect the affordability and long term survivability of the human food supply.
See the dramatic YouTube video, The Global Biofuel Disaster.
Suggested reading:
The Renewable Energy Disaster
More Ethanol Means Dirtier Air
(New York Times) Obama camp closely linked to ethanol
(Forbes Magazine) The Food Crisis of 2011
Christopher Calder - nonprofit, nonpartisan food
security advocate
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