How do we Deal with this...?
This entry was posted on 2/21/2011 8:45 PM and is filed under uncategorized.
I read a statistic the other day (and looked further into it to confirm the validity of it over the last few days), and the article said that the world, at it's current rate of growth and consumption, will have to produce more food in the next 40 yrs than we have in the previous 8000 yrs to feed everyone.
Yikes. Think about that...
Due to increases in world population (especially in third world and under developed and developing nations), decrease in healthy water supplies, increased water consumption, more poor people, potentially drier and hotter summers, increased dis[parity between the wealthy nations and the poorer nations, it presents a bleak picture...
It has also been said that roughly one third of the world's population is overweight or obese, one third are starving, and the balance is fed close to correctly (it didn't get into whether the nutrients and quality of the food was good, but that uis a point for another discussion...).
Do we see part of the problem here? Too many without...too many with too much, and not enough ways to tilt the scales to a level playing field...this is not a political situation (although it always seems to turn out that way), but we could solve a lot of our problems if we ate the RIGHT amount, and kept ourselves from wasting the rest...it would be even better if the energy we saved by NOT wasting all that food and all those resources was used to help create better conditions for people that are starving for food and resources...this is not about sharing the wealth, or the redistribution of wealth..this is about not eating more than you need and then busting yourself out at the gym to try to burn it off just so you can break even on the scale...
It makes a lot more sense to eat 100 less calories a day than jog an extra mile, doesn't it? Especially when you start increasing the calories (300? 500? 1000?), and increasing the exercise (1 hr a day? 2 hrs a day? More...?)...makes paying attention to calories make a little more sense, doesn't it?
