The King of Starvation -
Barack Obama
It is reasonable to estimate that global
biofuel production has killed between 20 and 80 million people
worldwide since 1980 through malnutrition and related illness. By
“kill” I mean the primary cause of death. Any estimate below 20
million would be ridiculously low. An estimate higher than 80
million is plausible, but less likely and more difficult to
prove. It is also reasonable to estimate that biofuel production
has been a significant
contributing factor
in up to 150 million human deaths since 1980. No politician has
had the courage to put a number on the global biofuel death toll, so I
have given you my honest but very broad estimate. The fact that
global statistics of this magnitude are impossible to exactly calculate
should not deter us from facing the fact that we have killed tens of
millions of people for no good reason, and no politician has apologized
for that mass negligent homicide. No American
politician has made food supply security a major campaign issue.
They should, because we are living in the century of mass starvation.
Going against all the scientific and economic
evidence, and ignoring pleas from nonprofit hunger fighting
organizations, nonprofit environmental protection organizations, 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 estimated biofuel death toll of between 20
million and 80 million is a common sense calculation based on global
poverty statistics from many sources, which all show that millions of
people are dying from
malnutrition and related illness every year.
No organization has exact numbers, but death rate estimates currently
range from around 16 to 20 million per
year, which translates to about 43,000 to 54,000 every day. All
major hunger organizations and the United Nations
agree that thousands of children die every day due to a lack of
food, with estimates ranging from 16,000 to 24,000 daily.
If we calculate the average height of deceased individuals as 3 feet
for children and adults combined, and use the lowest death estimate of
43,000 per
day, that means enough people die every day of malnutrition and related
illness to make a unbroken line of corpses over 24 miles long.
I do not totally trust anyone's statistics,
but we must
admit the general fact that mass starvation is occurring right now, so
why is President Barack Obama doing everything he can to make food more
expensive and shrink the human food supply? 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 14 and 40
million Chinese over a short three year period. Mao 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, 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]
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.
Barack Obama’s biofuel scheme is currently
complicated by poor grain harvests in Russia caused by an unusually hot
summer. 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.
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 food
security advocate
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