Vultures waiting for our 'children' to die should be killed now.

This photo is the "Pulitzer Prize" winning photo taken in 1994 during the Sudan famine. The picture depicts a famine stricken child crawling towards a United Nations food camp, located a kilometer away. The vulture is waiting for the child to die so that it can eat it. The internationally acclaimed photographer Kevin Carter captured this award winning shot and then chased away the vulture. The girl then resumed her trek to the UN feeding center. Afterwards, Carter told an interviewer, that he sat under a tree for a long time smoking cigarettes and crying.

This picture shocked the whole world. No one knows the fate of the girl child, including the photographer Kevin Carter who left the place as soon as the photograph was taken. 14 months after capturing that memorable scene, Carter received the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography.

"The man adjusting his lens to take just the right frame of her suffering," said the St Petersburg (Florida)Times, "might just as well be a predator, another vulture on the scene." Even some of Carter's friends wondered aloud why he had not helped the girl.Two months later he committed suicide due to depression

Vultures waiting for our children to die should be killed. This photo is known as a ''cold dagger in the heart of human conscience;'' a debate on 'what would you have done' led to the photographer's suicide. Today, the spectre of famine raises its ugly monstrous head as we play games with ourselves in the name of global warming. We deflated Malthusian premonitions due to our ability to increase the size of the cake. Today we are reducing the size of the cake in the name of producing fuel out of our grains. This 'dumb streak to green the world' is led by the so-called 'smartest, fattest and the worst consumers amongst us.' A

Vaclav Havel says that, "Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism." "As someone who lived under communism for most of my life, I feel obliged to say that the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity at the beginning of the 21st century is not communism or its various softer variants," said Klaus, responding to questions posed by the two lawmakers in the US congress recently.

We as humankind have an obligation to act before it is too late. Tyrannical communistic environmentalism will lead us to major human disasters. According to Poverty.com as to how do we end global hunger, one of the five key steps is awareness of what drives up food prices, and preventing this with alternative solutions.

Instead of asking what would you have done, let's do the right thing now - procure resources for staple food; let's bring global prices down and stop diverting resources to bio fuels, which are taking away acreage of staple food to produce maize-based ethanol. Ethanol production is bad science so let's stop it before mankind has to face photos like the "vulture" photo. Instead of a philosophical debate on what Carter should have done, we should act now so that those vultures may not attack another dying girl. It does cost more to produce a gallon of ethanol than a gallon of gasoline. It has been estimated that "if every bushel of U.S. corn, wheat, rice and soybean were used to produce ethanol, it would only cover about 4% of U.S. energy needs on a net basis."1

Under the title "HYSTERIA: Exposing the secret agenda behind today's obsession with global warming," Whistleblower tells the rest of the story the "mainstream press" will never reveal. The U.N. recently announced that global warming is leading inexorably to global catastrophe. Al Gore won the "best documentary" Oscar for his disaster film "An Inconvenient Truth." The news media beats the drum of "climate catastrophe" daily, all but ignoring scientists who say the threat is overblown or nonexistent. And across America, school children are frightened to death with tales of rising oceans, monster tornadoes, droughts and millions dying – all because of man-made global warming.

Rising food shortages and price hikes is mankind's new challenge, so act before it is too late, as greens led by Mr. Al Gore's Inconvenient Lies have encouraged and screwed up with bio fuels. Ethanol making releases far higher emissions; it is in contradiction to the laws of thermodynamics that are very clear, input energy should be less than output; here we see ethanol reducing food. To avoid famine, stand up and be counted. Poverty is the worst polluter. African famine and global shortages can only be avoided if we go back to basics, respect mankind's right to live with honour and provide security of food. A man whose intake is 5000 calories a day can talk about 'environment' and global warming but someone living on less than 800 calories needs food first. Vultures waiting for our children to die should be killed.2

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1.It is disputed whether ethanol as an automotive fuel results in a net energy gain or loss. As reported in "The Energy Balance of Corn Ethanol: an Update,"[40] the energy returned on energy invested (EROEI) for ethanol made from corn in the U.S. is 1.34 (it yields 34% more energy than it takes to produce it). Input energy includes natural gas based fertilizers, farm equipment, transformation from corn or other materials, and transportation. (Hosein Shapouri, James A. Duffield, and Michael Wang. The Energy Balance of Corn Ethanol: an Update. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved on 21 May, 2007.)

If displacement cost of humans is included, other researchers report that the production of ethanol consumes more energy than it yields.("Forget the Ethanol Myth -- Avoid Biofuel Bubble: John F. Wasik", Bloomberg.com, July 23, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-07-25. )

2.World production of ethanol in 2006 was 51 billion liters, (13.5 billion gallons), with 69% of the world supply coming from Brazil and the United States.The Energy Policy Act of 2005 requires that 4 billion gallons of "renewable fuel" be used in 2006 and this requirement will grow to a yearly production of 7.5 billion gallons by 2012.

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Ethanol And Hunger

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