Climate Change affects the food production

I would like to write good news ever. But when you analyze the human behavior sometimes this is not possible; specially, when you consider the human being attitude regarding the natural resources conservation.
Man is a depredator of nature. He has a trend to destroy the wealth given by God to humanity.
Two hundred ten years ago, in 1798, a brilliant priest and economist, Thomas Robert Malthus, (1766-1834), in his Essay on the Principle of Population said that “the power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.”
Malthus could not imagine that two centuries after the Climate Change would confirm his theory. Malthus did not know the Climate Change. The Pre Industrial civilization ---the Second Industrial Revolution began at the middle of the XIX century--- was a green and not contaminated world.
But now, almost 210 years after, the facts are confirming that the possibility of producing food for feeding the growing world population is every day less. The Global Warming is affecting the sources of water worldwide. Without water the agriculture development is not possible and the true is that every day the availability of this resource is diminishing in the world.
The World Bank in its World Development Report 2010, Development and Climate Change, warns that “the developing countries would be the most vulnerable by the Climate Change, with permanent reductions in GDP of 4 to 5 per cent for Africa and South Asia.” In the Foreword of the same Report, the President of the Bank, Robert Zoellick assures that “it is crucial that countries reach a Climate Agreement in December in Copenhagen that integrates development needs with climate actions.”
To adopt the measures for resolve the problem of the Climate Change and its consequences is something essential to guarantee the world surviving especially, the future of our sons, grandsons and the next generations.

A radical change in the economic theory

The concepts of the book Running Out: How Global Shortages Change the Economic Paradigm, (Algora Publishing, New York 2006 and 2008), represents a radical change for the economic theory. The main idea of the book is that the world is facing an unprecedented situation: the global scarcity of natural resources, especially water and petroleum.
The phenomenon already has begun to be visible in many regions of the planet. An oil producer as Indonesia, for example, has exhausted their reserves and had to retire from the OPEC recently.
The oil reserves of the North Sea are in critical situation; the same happen in Mexico and in the United States. The situation of the water reserves is not best. In many regions of the world the water scarcity is already a reality.
The book assures that capital will not be the main scarce factor of production as has been until now. In the near future the natural resources will be the scarce factor of production and this means a complete change for the traditional economics concepts.
The overexploitation of the resources and the contamination of the environment are the causes of the situation.
Only the development of new sources of energy less contaminants, the massive construction of green cars and a policy of reforestation and conservation of the forests that still survive might diminish the impact of the problem. But it is necessary a global effort.
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