Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Saving Gaia
Gaia by definition is Earth... well... i was kinda attracted to a copy of national geographic by something on the cover which said The Christian Exodus from the Holy Land. I was introduced to it by e person that National Geographic mainly contains news from over the world... but not in the political sense... i wasnt terribly interested in environmental news i thought... well.. thats i THOUGHT..... but then again... after reading oni like part of an article... i found that it was terribly informative in a sense.... *FAINT* i found myself reading in the trains on the way to Jurong.... when of course i din feel sleepy lar...
In case u're wondering wat kinda news could have made me read... it wasnt the one i bought it for... i haven got to that one.. but i should be stuck on it when i get there as well.. since i started reading from the front.. it was on agriculture and crops... and hybrid seeds... and about the situations in africa, etc... where theres insufficient food....
we need 5 times of meat to fill us up, compared to grains.... so we actually need to eat alot of meat to feel full... and a lot of grains harvested are actually used to feed animals... where there are alot of starving people ard the world lorrrr... its like awakening news... =( waste alot of food here n there... then with the growing population all over the world... it is said that to be able to feed everyone in the world... the rate of crops being harvested needa be doubled... in order to be able to meet up with the growing population... if not there will be a whole lot more of starving people around the world...
Lets talk about countries that imports food supplies? if theres really a shortage of food, would countries still export their harvests? prices of food would rocket.. but to survive really, would they export as much? or keep for themselves...? i dun dare tink of the future man... theres some stuff on the green revolution as well... anyway all i can say is its really really informative and offers u a new perspective on the earth... well... crops are not growing fast enough for us to eat or waste... i'm not totally done on the article.. it isnt a lot of pages but i'm takin my time readin it... on the new technologies to haste the harvest times etc... but with genetically altered seeds and stuffs... comes risks as well lar...
interesting stuffs..... well, the more we do, it seems the worse everythg becomes... tho solving something temporary, it brings about huge consequences.... *shrugs* from doing all sorts of things... =/ i wonder if natural is the best.... no one ever did had so much problems in the past when everything was simple and easy... with all these advancements comes fast growing population and the food supplies dun really match up and in those starving places... kids are born to suffer... =( how heart wrenching... they have some pictures inside of starving children and ppl born with deformity... due to those stuffs and people have been tested with pesticides in their blood due to the crops and stuff... =/ and even breastmilk have been tested to have pesticide... thats really BAD!!!!! and the people eat those stuffs they plant la..
oh well.. thats enuf for the night.. will continue reading on the way to jurong tmr again...
but reading all those really makes me think that we should really conserve energy and do what we can to save the earth la... arbo also killin ourselves also... =/
Jie crapped at 10:29 PM
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