No rain for the crops, Two million need food aid in Zimbabwe

africa is rich and nearly overflowing in natural resources. there is no reason for poverty in africa. no reason that is except for the people who encourage these conditions and gain a profit from misery. climate change or not everyone alive today will be dead in a hundred years... the climate has always been changing... thats what it does... we're just now catching on to this fact.

"climate change or not everyone alive today will be dead in a hundred years... the climate has always been changing... thats what it does... we're just now catching on to this fact."

Thats not a very good way of looking at it... Within the next hundred years(you or your family may still be alive) there is going to be widespread famine and even resource(water) wars.

Of course the climate is constantly changing but do you really believe humans had no impact on that? I doubt we are the direct cause of climate change but its almost definite that we at least precipitated this shift through the use of fossil fuels and deforestation among many other negative environmental practices.

Its been proven that by harnessing chlorofluorocarbons that we damaged the ozone layer which protects us from solar radiation. Is it really that difficult to believe that 6+ BILLION people burning things for decades had a detrimental affect on nature and the climate?

I didn't say anything about human involvement in these changes... all I meant was that earth, the biosphere, climate and all, are very dynamic things and change regardless of us.

Yes you're correct billions of people pulling carbon from the ground and pumping it into the air really doesn't help anything... and yes, I too believe that humans are making it accelerate. But what makes climate change a bad thing? If humans flourished and thrived so well in the last ice age, don't you think that if the people alive then knew that the ice sheets were retreating they might think it a bad thing, because it’s partially why they were a success? But in hindsight it was actually one of the best things to have happened to us. I just don't think that climate change is inherently a bad thing... actually it may turn out over the next hundred years to be a very good thing for human civilization, just as the retreat of the ice was a benefit. I think the fear is in change itself. We will adapt and evolve.

We will adapt and evolve, and ultimately all we CAN do is adapt and evolve. Just as we’ve always done, just as all life on earth has always done. there are cycles and patterns in nature, in the sun and solar system, in the galaxy and all the cosmos that we humans simply do not live long enough to recognize or simply will never experience due to such vast time intervals. Global warming and/or cooling are good examples of a pattern that we’ve just recently become aware of.

Not to mention that altering the composition of the atmosphere as we are now provides an excellent opportunity for humans to develop terra-forming technologies.

I will agree with that, but while starvation is natural, so too is reproducing. I certainly would not bring a child into that "climate", but as prevalent as rape is over there, I'm not sure if many of the women had a choice.

rape? good observation. didn't think about that. but do you really think that the majority of or a major source of population growth is from rape? I highly doubt rape is responsible. my point was that feeding starving people only means that they'll breed more starving people. so food is not the answer to the problem but a crutch and their lack of food is only a symptom of a greater problem.

Said but true. The problem is a lack of education. Large parts of Africa are so destitute that education and indeed government is non-existent. Throw in disease, religious/ethnic conflict and arid conditions and you get nothing but misery. The question is what do we do(or not do) about it?

I personally don't care and couldn't care less. but if someone out there really did care... perhaps help them install irrigation systems or something so these people can grow their own food and not rely on hand outs. that would create jobs and encourage prosperity... but then again there are also many people who profit from this situation and don't want it to change... those people wherever they are are the real threat.

It's hard for anything to grow/survive without water.

what about irrigation?

Still requires water.

yes farming in the desert is totally possible. most of the food grown around the world is produced in places that recieve inadiquate rain, therefore they all use irrigation. where I live ALL agriculture is dependant on irrigation.

Because people like Green Peace won't allow us to export our agricultural science to starving countries...America, a country with the luxury of being able to turn down food wants to tell other countries that they aren't allowed to have what we have.

Oh well...maybe anti-G.E. groups will change their tune after the lives of millions of people are directly in their weak, opportunistic white hands.

I think the point is that it's hard to fish without water.

the proverb isn't litterally about fish. it's about giving someone the basic skills to aquire what they need rather than just giving them what they need.

I know, friend. I was being proverbial too. All life requires water. Crops, fish, cattle, humans...

we need water? the ice caps are water trapped in ice there for global warming frees that water from the ice giving us more water. 3]=

linberal this, liberal that... liberal blah, liberal.. liberal... liberal... blah blah blah. you clearly don't even know what that word means. you're a moron.