By Viv Forbes
A warmer, wetter climate with more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would undoubtedly produce more plant growth and more food.
However climate-cooling policies that
claim to prevent global warming by throttling the use of carbon fuels
will definitely reduce food supply and increase food prices.
The promotion of ethanol for motor fuel
is anti-food. This "food for fuel" program has absorbed significant
quantities of corn, soy beans, sugar and palm oils. Consequently prices
for ethanol crops are higher than they would otherwise be, encouraging
farmers to convert land currently devoted to grazing animals and other
food crops to growing more profitable crops for ethanol.