Just one year to go to check on the accuracy of this prediction, claimed by warming proponent George Monbiot in 2002.
Within as little as 10 years, the world will be faced with a choice: arable farming either continues to feed the world’s animals or it continues to feed the world’s people. It cannot do both.The impending crisis will be accelerated by the depletion of both phosphate fertiliser and the water used to grow crops. Every kilogram of beef we consume, according to research by the agronomists David Pimental and Robert Goodland, requires around 100,000 litres of water. Aquifers are beginning the run dry all over the world, largely because of abstraction by farmers.
Guardian. Why Vegans Were Right All Along.
And it wasn’t just eating meat, that Monbiot was demanding we ditch – “vegetarians who continue to consume milk and eggs scarcely reduce their impact on the ecosystem”. As the title puts it, “Vegans were right all along”. Give up meat, eggs, cheese, butter and milk, or we’ll all be starving within as little as ten years, he warned.
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Monbiot is not a racist. He is not even a neo-Malthusian. But in his eagerness to impose austerity on everyone, he gets taken in by the arguments of those who are. It’s why he earnestly believed the patently ludicrous claim that it took 100,000 litres of water to make 1 kilogram of beef, a risible claim that anyone not ideologically blinded would instantly dismiss as nonsense, as he himself was forced to do as 2012 approached.
It is the anti-immigrant and anti-human agenda of the people who warn of “scarce resources” and “too many people” that is the real danger, not the idle bravado and loose chatter of a bunch of guys on an internet chat-room.
More here at Haunting the Library
h/t to Andrew Bolt
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If water is so scarce why is my friends house now floating down the Brisbane river?
Honestly if water is so scarce we should be forced by Government to drink more beer,
or they could make it tax deductible, because you are doing something for the environment. Actually with all this water around if we do much more of that for the environment my septic system will over flow………….
No useful contribution here, move along……
@ur momisugly Gallier2 –
I find it even more disturbing that you didn’t bother to check the source that Wattsupwiththat.com gave before you made your accusation. It clearly states, at some length, that Monbiot had already withdrawn his silly statement. There was no point, therefore, in including that statement again.
Please, Gallier2, more fact-checking in future, and less finger-pointing.
@hauntingthelibrary
1) A comment below the line is never “more disturbing” than one above the line.
2) If someone has retracted an idea, why even bring it up?
3) The visible bit of the WUWT report references the vegan report, most people will read that.
4) See my previous comment ( moderated on your site) about the spurious associations of racism, and why mentioning his association ( at two removes) from racists is a weasal technique.
( And to restate, I am not Monbiot’s fan). This is shoddy nonsense.
More Monbiot deconstruction: click