tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post1032602416704112020..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: China's New Climate, And YoursThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-90606083909101119392011-06-17T14:35:19.840-07:002011-06-17T14:35:19.840-07:00The Canadian media are relatively dormant on clima...The Canadian media are relatively dormant on climate change, asleep at the wheel. There is a sort of repetitiveness about it - how many times have there been stories about Arctic ice melting faster than forecast. We get those stories because we keep underestimating the event but after a while they do blur.<br /><br />Speculators are indeed contributing immensely to global food prices but they'll game any commodity they sense is less than secure. It's what they do and it's insanely predatory and inevitably inflicts an awful lot of suffering on the most vulnerable. They ought to take the brokers at Goldman and force them for a year or two to live with and eat like the families who suffer at their hands. That would cure the speculation problem rather quickly.<br /><br />The UN released a study today that indicated soaring food prices have very little effect on improving supply.<br /><br />We also need to stay conscious of "landscape amnesia." This happens when we forget what normal looked like sometimes just a few years earlier. Man has a tendancy to see the present as "normal". This is akin to how you boil a frog by starting with a pot of cold water.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-39306229201031138532011-06-17T14:12:59.472-07:002011-06-17T14:12:59.472-07:00Why isn't the Canadian media covering any of t...Why isn't the Canadian media covering any of this?<br /><br />I understand they can't have a story on every bad thing that happens in the world, but half a million people being relocated is a big deal.<br /><br />Worse, with floods and droughts worldwide, why doesn't the media cover the world's changing climate? <br /><br />Why don't they even cover how food & food prices will be affected by floods or droughts in the food-producing areas of the globe? This CBC article, as an example, <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2011/06/17/oecd-fao-food-prices.html" rel="nofollow">blames speculators</a> for rising food prices, promotes further regulation as some sort of holy grail, and seems not at all concerned with the impact to Canadians.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com