The Hunger Wars in Our Future

Click here to access article by Michael T. Klare from TomDispatch. (Note: you may wish to skip the introduction by Tom Engelhardt and scroll down to the article.)

Although the near future effects of climate change cannot be predicted with great accuracy, such dark scenarios that Klare and others present must be regarded as very possible. Notice, however, that this liberal commentator avoids any mention of the profits that the rich are going to reap from the tragedies by investing, as they are now doing, in the futures markets. For more background on the role of financial speculation to increase food prices, see these two excellent sources:

• "The Food Bubble: How Wall Street Starved Millions and Got Away With It" - a 17:00m video from Democracy Now.
• "The real hunger games: How banks gamble on food prices – and the poor lose out" - from The Indepedent