Hi Open,

very interesting topics indeed, most people do not realise all of the implications and cross-connections of the changing climate.

A very important example, which is mostly overlooked, is that the warming of the ocean makes it absorb more CO2 which consequently leads to its acidification (the lowering of pH) and thus to the disolving of corals and other lime based life forms, think formation of sea shells. Another result of the warming is that the ocean can absorb less oxygen and thus plancton as the base of the oceanic food chain cannot thrive anymore.

At least in western civilization we do eat too much, that's for sure. And we do so at the cost of other nations that mostly find themselves disadvantaged. According to my knowledge there is enough food produced on the earth to feed each and every one of us, so the difficulty we are facing is one of unbalanced or unjust distribution. I remember vividly watching a docu (i think it was called 'Hunger! Thirst!') and the reporter approached some merchants in front of an Indian rice market. They told him that they at this moment were not able to sell rice because prices on the world market were so low so they would not make any profit. After the interview there was a storage worker, who secretly listened, who showed the reporter inside the storage area, where they would find hundreds of tons of rice, even partially rotting.

Sad Story i find, but that's the situation in many cases. And this is where wall street has a very real effect on people's lifes.

With love,

Thomas