Well, one reason Mugabe can starve his people is that they had little rain...however, when I worked there twenty years ago, they had little rain...and the elders pointed to the very very severe drought in the 1950's, when they were kept alive with Kenyan maize (to this day, yellow corn sadza is called kenya)...
I'm an Okie. When they complain, I just think: Dust bowl.
But in the 1930's people could move to California, so although poverty was severe, few actually starved.
And in Zimbabwe, they didn't starve in the 1950's, nor in the 1970's nor even in the bad drought in the 1980's....like most modern starvation, it's political...
The answer: Irrigation, stupid. It works for Kansas...
Ah, but where do the PC want the money to go? Elephants.
Predicting the regional impacts of global climate change is not an exact science; but in Africa, home to the "big five"' symbolic species - elephant, rhinoceros, lion, leopard and buffalo - computer models predict that overall, areas which are currently dry will become even dryer as well as warmer.
Yup. and if you look at the paintings in the sahara, you find that 6 thousand years ago, it was a savannah...climate is indeed changing. This doesn't mean that the religion of global warming is based on fact...if it was, my old stomping grounds in Minnesota would still be under 200 feet of glacier
In pre-industrial times, animals threatened by these changes could simply have migrated, but human development means that option has largely disappeared.
Yup. Damn those humans. Not the nice white ones living on Long Island, but those useless eaters who insist on growing maize and sweet potatoes to feed their kids.
"Protected areas are now islands," said Dr Leakey. "The wildlife and fauna and flora are pretty well tied in by boundaries which aren't oceans, in the sense of islands, but development.
........In an attempt to find solutions, Dr Leakey has convened a high-level three-day seminar at Stony Brook University near New York, where he is a visiting professor.
He will attempt to convince representatives of bodies such as the World Bank and the United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) that they should set up a new fund of around $100m to research the issue, and find ways of protecting wildlife from climate change.
Ah, more money for bureaucrats and to line the purses of government officials...
With that kind of money, we could buy air cons for the elephants...
Paul Volker, call your office...
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