Comments on: Worldwide shortage of rice – prices soaring http://climatepatrol.net/2008/02/24/worldwide-shortage-of-rice-prices-soaring/ Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:37:30 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jason Dragon http://climatepatrol.net/2008/02/24/worldwide-shortage-of-rice-prices-soaring/comment-page-1/#comment-42 Jason Dragon Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:35:40 +0000 http://climatepatrol.net/?p=36#comment-42 I spent much of 2007 in the Philippines and about 80% of the land that once was used to grow rice is sitting there empty. Due to politics and such it was uneconomical to produce rice because it was so cheap to import it. Now they have million of acres of land that once produced rice that is still sitting there. Now people are afraid that prices will go up even more so they are stocking up now, thus prices shoot up and shortages occur. They stopped producing rice because the people revolted to the mass ownership of huge amounts of land by agri companies. So the government stepped in and broke up the land, and made a law that no single person or company could own more than 10 acres of farm land in the whole country. Now without the economies of scale needed to run an efficient business most of the land simply went idle, and has been now for about 40 years. Now it has been so long that it would take years to start it all back up. Also even the most pessimistic experts on global warming say that the largest rise we will see in the ocean in the next 50 years is 2 feet. And maybe 4 feet by 2100. But many changes are happening so that even is unlikely. -Jason Dragon http://blog.capitalactive.com I spent much of 2007 in the Philippines and about 80% of the land that once was used to grow rice is sitting there empty. Due to politics and such it was uneconomical to produce rice because it was so cheap to import it. Now they have million of acres of land that once produced rice that is still sitting there. Now people are afraid that prices will go up even more so they are stocking up now, thus prices shoot up and shortages occur.

They stopped producing rice because the people revolted to the mass ownership of huge amounts of land by agri companies. So the government stepped in and broke up the land, and made a law that no single person or company could own more than 10 acres of farm land in the whole country. Now without the economies of scale needed to run an efficient business most of the land simply went idle, and has been now for about 40 years. Now it has been so long that it would take years to start it all back up.

Also even the most pessimistic experts on global warming say that the largest rise we will see in the ocean in the next 50 years is 2 feet. And maybe 4 feet by 2100. But many changes are happening so that even is unlikely.

-Jason Dragon
http://blog.capitalactive.com

]]> By: Ken Whitley http://climatepatrol.net/2008/02/24/worldwide-shortage-of-rice-prices-soaring/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Ken Whitley Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:23:57 +0000 http://climatepatrol.net/?p=36#comment-41 It's a pretty bizarre form of paranoia that puts the WTO and Greenpeace together in the "enemies" camp. Let me guess - LaRouche, Ron Paul, or libertarian technocrat. I win - Ron Paul "news" on this very page! It’s a pretty bizarre form of paranoia that puts the WTO and Greenpeace together in the “enemies” camp.

Let me guess – LaRouche, Ron Paul, or libertarian technocrat.

I win – Ron Paul “news” on this very page!

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