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Old December 18th, 2007, 02:56 PM
James Brody James Brody is offline
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Exclamation Expect Mobs: Food Supply

Emergent network theory predicts mass action when resources drop (Brody, 2006, 2003, in press; Bianconi & Barabasi, 2000; Bianconi 2002; Csermely, 2006). It happened in Paris during their revolution; it happened in Holland during "Tulipmania," after Holland had a series of defeats in the 30 Years War and an encounter with the bubonic plague. (Wiki, "tulipomania."

The following piece is very bad news, if accurate. On the other hand, "giving" sometimes promotes long term demands for more giving. And will there be greater concern in New York or Kansas than in Dubai?

"World food stocks dwindling rapidly, UN warns

By Elisabeth Rosenthal

Published: December 17, 2007

"In an "unforeseen and unprecedented" shift, the world food supply is dwindling rapidly and food prices are soaring to historic levels, the top food and agriculture official of the United Nations warned Monday.
The changes created "a very serious risk that fewer people will be able to get food," particularly in the developing world, said Jacques Diouf, head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.

"The agency's food price index rose by more than 40 percent this year, compared with 9 percent the year before - a rate that was already unacceptable, he said. New figures show that the total cost of foodstuffs imported by the neediest countries rose 25 percent, to $107 million, in the last year."

more at http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/17/europe/food.php

References
Bianconi, G. & Barabasi, A-L (2000) Bose-Einstein condensation in complex networks. arXiv:cond-mat/0011224 v1 13 Nov 2000.
Bianconi, G (2002) Quantum statistics in complex networks. ArXiv cond-mat/0206433 v2 13 Sep 2002
Steele, Shelby (2006/2007) White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era. NY: Harper Collins.
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