Christmas Stocking

I recently read that there is going to be a huge shortfall in the corn harvest in America. Less corn means less feed for cattle and people all over the world. Food shortages produce some violent reactions anywhere that they happen. Americans express a mild sympathy for famines in Africa but how are they going to feel when food shortage demonstrations and riots happen in New York and Los Angeles?
America is not the world's referee, despite the opinions of Washington D.C.. We are the world's bread basket. Next to gravel, we export more food than anything else. Recently some genius discovered how to convert food into automobile fuel. Now we will be able to ride in a limosine to the cemetary instead of being carried.
I think back to Maslow's list. Oxygen, water, food, and shelter are the things we need, in that order. The Earth tries hard to provide those things but someone has been messing with the process. It could be that Gaia has decided to erase the board and start over.
SUV's, stealth weapons, and spaceships are not on Maslow's list. It could be that wool may need to be added. I read that if global warming keeps going, it is going to get very cold in Western Europe.
I don't know what the timetable for the shortages is but, for myself, I think that it is time to start stocking up for Christmas. Canned goods and white rice and doomsday supplies are definitely on my wish list. What will Christmas dinner be like when I sit down to a nice roasted Spam? Dinty Moore will be invited for New Year's Eve. Crack open a bottle of Poland Springs 2011 and let the revels begin!
The Neandertals held out for quite a while in their rock condos in Gibraltar. Who will be the next tenants?
The human race has its priorities all messed up. Rock stars and sports heroes are idolized. Our children are ignored all over the world. Old McDonald shoud be the hero we all aspire to emulate. Feed the children, make sure that your wife has a safe and secure place to live, and stop messing about with all of the toys we have accumulated. Maybe, in some future Eden, the human race will finally decide to put an Amish woman in charge of everything. Is Gaia Amish?