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July 15, 2009 (FinancialWire) (By Bud Burrell) — As more investor attention turns toward  agriculture, livestock and food ETFs such as the PowerShares DB Agriculture ETF (NYSE: DBA), the Van Eck Market Vectors Global Agribusiness ETF (NYSE: MOO), as well as environmentally conscious, Socially Responsible Investing (”SRI”) ETFs such as the iShares KLD Select Social Index Fund (NYSE: KLD) and the iShares KLD 400 Social Index (NYSE: DSI) (the “Domini Index”), FinancialWire(tm) editorial contributor Bud Burrell’s attention is making a similar shift in focus, as seen in this most recent article:

In the remaining years of my life, I have chosen to take on issues which I feel certain will impact the fabric of the everyday lives of people across the globe.  Certainly the most staggering crisis facing the world today, even beyond the huge financial fraud scandals currently rocking the stability of the World, is that of exploding population.  This latter crisis can only be viewed as one ultimately destroying the world, through a process that will begin with food shortages globally, leading to armed conflict all over the planet.

We are manufacturing a global crisis over pending energy shortages, ones that are still some decades away.  The population crisis is one that is on us right now, not decades away.  With current global population sitting at 6 Billion, we are already facing food shortages which, were it not for slightly elevated levels of CO2, would have killed 1 Billion people last year through starvation.   This statistic is from the U.N. report (which I am sure the global warming advocates would like to see “disappeared”) indicating that the positive growth of vegetation last year from the increased CO2 gases stimulated worldwide food production was 18% over prior years.

By failing to control global population, and by combining this with increasing energy costs intricately linked to production and transportation of food products, we insure an equation that literally locks the World into a form of critical death spiral.  As demands for all foods increase exponentially beyond the ability of arable land to sustain steadily increasing food production that will match population growth projected to double the Global population by 2050, just over 40 years from now, we are locked into a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions.

China saw this problem headed at it over 40 years ago, when it implemented a hard population control of one child per family.  The result of this has been a population growth that has been reduced by over 300 Million people than would have otherwise been the case. The existence of this 300 Million people had they been born would have brought this great country to its knees, and it would most certainly have resulted in an internal revolution that would have shattered the Chinese state.  Say what you will, but the tight internal State policies of the Communists have literally saved China.

We are on a path now with our energy policies that will inevitably impair our food production, and our ability to cost effectively ship our food to other parts of the world in need.  When you look at the population growth of many of the third world countries, including India, Indonesia, Brazil, and more, the anti-population growth policies of China alone cannot save the rest of the World from the inevitable consequences of 50% population growth in less than 50 years.  Yet, our leaders say nothing.

Countries like the US and Canada are the large net food exporters of the World.  They can only become targets for attempted takeover and control by those countries which go past the “Calorie” tipping point.  This is that level where their internal food generation can no longer match the food demands of their population at the most basic level.  War becomes an “affordable alternative” to those who must focus their efforts elsewhere or blow up internally.

We, as a global community, must bring a halt to population growth.  It is no accident that the Islamic community has chosen to bury Europe, and ultimately, the World, with its high birth rate model.  There will be economic consequences to halting growth, as world economic models are all based on assumptions of never-ending growth, models which never look at the failure of such assumptions to be sustainable.  The planet has limited resources for the support of humanity, and we must stay within those boundaries, or see human beings become the ultimate pollutant.

Carry this message to your elected officials, religious leaders, friends, family and more.   We are playing a vicious form of Russian roulette with our existence, one in which there are no empty chambers in the revolver. 

Like many of the crises facing the World today, you have no option of doing nothing.  If you aren’t part of the solution, you are part of the problem.  This is a crisis that could bury democracy, particularly when paired with shameless self-interest and greed. 

Like the idea of rationing health care to “Old” people?  That can be a solution for those kinds of bureaucrats who support third trimester abortion.  There is no line between doing away with burdensome “Old” (meaning over 55 initially) people, and ending a life already formed.

If you think that is inflammatory, wait for the next major pandemic.

About Bud Burrell

Bud Burrell’s experience spans a diverse spectrum, including service with the U.S. Military in the Special Forces, as a Finance Officer and as a Project Finance & Accounting Officer. Burrell also pursued studies in fine arts, the Renaissance, Russian history, and Chinese culture. Following years of working on Wall Street, he worked with specialty and derivative money management consulting and research and development in IT and AI.  Since then, Burrell has worked globally with major development stage companies from the IT, energy, alternative energy, bio-pharma, and general technology arenas, as well as on counterfeiting and financial fraud scandals.

Mr. Burrell also regularly contributes to Investrend Weblogs (http://infoescrow.net/?u=http://www.investrendweblogs.net).

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