Mr John Anderson, a former federal leader of the Nationals, yesterday warned of possible global food and grain shortages. "This comes at a time of unprecedented concerns globally of very low grain stocks," he said.
Australia's current economic boom is fuelled by overseas demand for our commodity. The rise of India and particularly China's embrace of capitalism has proved invaluable to Australia's businesses. While some would like to think it has been all good management it is has been more good luck!
But while good luck has got us full employment bad luck will cause quite a bit of pain for us in the future. Our grain is traded on the world market and prices are shooting up daily because of world wide crop failures. Supermarket shortages are not something we have had to cope with in this country for years and for some they have never seen lack. It will be a shock to many.
However times change...Jesus said that famines in various places were all signs of the beginning of the end of time.
Doomsday prophets are not popular...and inevitably the crisis they predict passes...but with global warming and climate change with us for the long term perhaps this time they are right. What do you think?
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My husband says that my predilection and interest in doom, gloom, disaster, famine, earthquake and volcanoes erupting is macarbe.
Firstly I want to clarify in answer to that and quite honestly say I am saddened very much when I hear of death from such events. The devastation is quite enormous and people lose loved ones and it is quite an emotional experience for all personally involved.
I still can't help but get almost excited when I hear of all these disasters though, beacause it reminds me of Mark 13 where Jesus talks about the Signs of the End of the Age and coming in clouds of Glory.
Call it macarbe if you like but it just reminds of things to come.
Signs of the times can be exciting in a way . I guess the weather men were talking up extended wet periods whilst ignoring Noah's ark building . It's not going to flood globally again so I guess we need lots of dry tinder for the next round . Even so Lord come .
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