Re:Oil Crash is Kicking Off One of the Largest Wealth Transf...
by pyre on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @02:49PM
(#11021969)
> And that's going to be significantly more expensive than locally grown food
Depends on the food and the transportation method. Is growing tomatoes in a green house during winter months in a northern country more or less efficient than shipping them from the southern hemisphere?
Re:Oil Crash is Kicking Off One of the Largest Wealth Transf...
by imgabe on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @01:16PM
(#11021214)
We can also put the people on trucks or planes or boats and move them to where the food is. Expensive, yes, but only necessary once.
Re:Oil Crash is Kicking Off One of the Largest Wealth Transf...
by dragonwriter on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @04:00PM
(#11022541)
> We can also put the people on trucks or planes or boats and move them to where the food is.
We could, but the people where the food (and associated economic security) is may object to that.
Refugees often aren't all that well received, and economic refugees (as opposed to political refugees who are politically aligned with the receiving state, which is opposed to the regime from which they are fleeing) -- external and, often, internal -- often are the worst received.
Your answer to food riots is don't worry, they'll starve to death soon enough?
> And in this modern age of transportation there's really no need for anybody to go hungry. We can feed everybody. If somebody in North Africa is hungry, its their politics at fault.
We can grow enough food for everybody. We can put the food on trucks. We can put the trucks on roads.
Somebody still has to pay for the food and the trucks and the roads. And that's going to be significantly more expensive than locally grown food. For people who have no money to begin with.