7 Reasons to Start Preparing Today
This list was submitted by kreemelin@cox.net. Thanks, Kelly!
1. Job loss: The unemployment rate, which stood at 10% in November, is expected to stay uncomfortably high for the foreseeable future. Some experts even suggest that the labor market won’t be able to fully recover from the 7.2 million jobs lost since the start of 2008 before another recession and round of job losses.
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7 million lost jobs: Gone forever?
2. Inflation: Food prices and political instability are rising sharply in a world agricultural system that is in transition and under pressure from changing diets, market turmoil, and rising energy costs. Food prices have risen 83 percent worldwide since 2005 and some staples such as rice and wheat have risen 141 percent and 130 percent respectively in the last year alone. In an increasingly resource-constrained world, there is little margin for error. Even in the months prior to the current crisis, over 830 million people worldwide went to bed each night malnourished and hungry.
3. America’s Debt: ‘He who pays the piper calls the tune”: That old saying captures perfectly America’s growing dependence on our No. 1 creditor in the world, Communist China. By their carelessness Congress and the Obama administration are steadily handing over control of America’s economic and financial future to a handful of Chinese officials and generals in Beijing. Those who think the Chinese won’t use that control if they feel they have to are ignoring history — and the Chinese.
4. Seed shortages: Will there be a shortage of vegetable seeds for gardeners in 2010? It is possible, says Barbara Melera, owner of the oldest seed house in the country, D. Landreth Seeds, of New Freedom, Pa. But, she said, “In 2009, we had the worst growing season in 50 years.” Rain and disease destroyed crops and with them, the seeds for next year’s garden. Likewise, Europe had a terrible harvest this year, and Europeans purchased much of their produce from the United States, taking with it the seeds. As further proof that we are in a global marketplace, Europeans and Australians have taken a fancy to eating sprouts, tons of sprouts.
Vegetable Seed Shortage May Come in 2010
5. Global Health: In February 2003, the first cases of SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) were reported in Asia. Within a few months, it had traversed the globe, spreading to more than two dozen countries on four continents killing 774 of the 8,098 people it infected. Even though the SARS outbreak was contained, it served as a grim reminder that in the modern world, a weakness in the surveillance system for infectious diseases in any one country – is a risk to all countries. Current globalization trends and the resurgence of disease pandemics underscore the need for a coordinated and connected system to detect and respond to emerging, and re-emerging, infectious diseases as close to the source as possible. Global disease detection supports the requirements of the newly revised International Health Regulations (IHR) 2005 by building local, regional, and global public health infrastructure in resource-constrained countries.
6. No Bees-No Crops: Large bee losses are not uncommon or unheard of. In fact, they have been reported numerous times in the last century. However, researchers have reason to believe they are dealing with something new; or at least something that is previously unidentified.
Bees are vanishing across America. More than one quarter of the 2.4 million colonies have been lost to unknown causes. According to the Apiary Inspectors of America, a national group that tracks beekeeping, that is tens of billions of bees. Some beekeepers have lost 26% of their colonies between September, 2006 and March, 2007.
Bee Shortage: Why Are the Bees Dying?
7. The United States Government urges us to: Taking these simple steps can make a big difference in ensuring your safety and well-being and that of your loved ones.
We urge you to start today.
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