Headline: A century ago, world population was around a billion souls. Today, seven (7) billion people inhabit our planet.
To summarise previous posts, the first decades of the 21st Century will be characterised by shortages of food, energy, raw materials, land and clean water. Lets look at the figures since January, and all this in spite of an economic slowdown.....
Scoreboard year-to-date in percentages
Gold.....+ 23/6%
Silver.....+38.7%
Platinum .....+15.5%
Palladium.....+ 44.6%
Copper....13.6
Agricultural
Cattle (lb)....................+12.0%
Coffee (lb)...................+36.9%
Corn (bu).....................+37.3%
Cotton (lb)...................+46.7%
Lumber(1000 bd.ft.)....+32.9%
Orange Juice (lb)..........+19.7%
Soy beans (bu)..............+13.2%
Wheat (bu)....................+29.8%
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change - Charles Darwin
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