Klimawandel und Hunger - die Lösung des einen Problems droht das andere zu verschärfen. Um das Klima zu schützen ist vermehrt Biokraftstoff gefragt. Das verkleinert die Anbaufläche für Getreide und treibt dessen Preis in die Höhe. Hilfsorganisationen sehen ihre Programme in Gefahr. Ein Bericht der Tagesschau.
Food riots in Indonesia, Mexico, Egypt, the Philippines and Vietnam. Price controls and food rationing in Pakistan and China. Are we back to the Malthusian trap as prices of agricultural and food commodities from wheat and corn to dairy products and meat have risen in the last few years to historically unprecedented levels? Or is this another malign byproduct of the current Western obsession with carbon emissions, purported to lead to planet-destroying global warming [...] for the Western “good and the great”, their academic acolytes and the pop stars grandstanding to save Africa and to end poverty, this latest Western assault on the world’s poor by their promotion of biofuels to replace food on the limited land in the world, can only evince contempt.