Myanmar and Chile Catastrophes

Further threatening World’s farmers is the astronomical rise in the price of oil-based chemical fertilizers used to grow their crops; and with the United States investment giant Goldman Sachs warning that Global oil prices are heading to $200 this will drive the cost of this most needed commodity out of the reach of all but the most richest of agricultural Nations.

Even in the face of this growing Global crisis, however, their appears to be no concern being voiced by the peoples of the United States, other than to complain to their War Leaders over the prices they are now having to pay for food and fuel. It is as if they have forgotten that their ancestors of last century were some of the World’s most productive farmers, and with just a little of their own effort they could convert their own land to feed themselves and their families.

But, and as the spring planting season draws ever closer to an end, it actually seems beyond these poor people to ever consider doing such a simple task as putting little seeds into the soil to grow. And which provides us with no greater example of how far these once mighty people have, indeed, fallen.
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