You Can Help Feed the World Today!
The other day, Razoo'er Roshani Kothari notified me about a post on the growing global food crisis. The increasing number of food riots in Africa and Asia along with a dramatic rise in food prices have elevated the exposure of this international problem.
According to the post Roshani directed me towards, "The United Nations said this week that 100 million people are now urgently at risk of not having enough food to eat -- and that includes people on every continent of the world."
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Sounds pretty scary, huh? Luckily, there are things you can do to help fight this problem. Check out the OneWorld group on Razoo so that you can educate yourself, spread awareness, and donate time or your expertise.
World hunger has been created as a result of market manipulation, U.S. subsidized farming, NAFTA/CAFTA and other unequal trade agreements, the FED's failure to support the dollar, illegal wars, and other mega-corporate practices that are transferring huge amounts of assets from the poor to the rich. The global corporate state is raping and pillaging the planet, and they don't care if millions die because of their policies. The solution is to take our power back. The solution is to gather in your communities and commit to community gardens using renewal energy sources. We must STOP consuming more than we produce, it is unsustainable, and makes us all complicit in creating starvation worldwide. We have a plan to create a model of a community that is completely sustainable, that provides 100% of the food and energy needs of its members. It simply follows the natural laws of ecosystems such that balance is maintained through a circle of renewal, with each organism's waste feeding another system. This is not difficult to do and can be adapted to any habitat by mimicking the survival mechanisms of its native inhabitants. Please contact us at biospagroup@yahoo.com if you want to support our effort to create world models of sustainable community.
@ SuZen: How will these community gardens work for folks who like in highly populated cities with very little green space? My friend's building for example has over 1000 residents. How are they supposed to be able to live off of vegetable gardens contained in a 20'x20' park area? Do you have any sources you can point our readers to on the Internet? This is a really interesting solution you propose!
@ Ryan: I read a really interesting blog post this morning about this very topic. It's a trend called "Urban Homesteading" where individuals use the space that they have in the city (rooftop, balconies, parks, etc) to live a self-sustained lifestyle. I'll post a link here to the article I read, but I'm sure if you do a search on the topic, you'll find more information. http://achingdebts.com/urban-homesteading-a-frugal-choice/ Has anyone else come across this or had personal experience with this type of lifestyle?
Here's another link that explains Urban Homesteading in more detail: http://www.realitysandwich.com/node/443