In a recent visit to China and South Korea, Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, of course discussed many topics. One topic was Canadian beef import to South Korea. Following the mad cow disease situation, South Korea has banned the import of Canadian beef for past six years.

Currently, Asia has the best longevity record and very few Asians are overweight and have all of the major health issues faced by Americans, such as high cholesterol and heart problems. This is due to their diet which uses very little beef, some pork, and chicken, but mostly seafood as its major source of proteins.

In total, according to the food and agriculture organization, North Americans get 7.6% of their proteins from meat versus 3.7% for Asians. North American diet consists of 1.5% fish versus 2.8% for Asian diet. North American diet has only 11% of fruits and vegetables compared to 29% for Asian diet.

And we want to send them more beef so that they too can be overweight, have high cholesterol, heart disease, and a shorter lifespan.

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By being just a little smarter and with just a bit more foresight, it could be advantage of Third World.

Third World nations feel that first world nations had it good for 200 years and that it gave them an advantage that they are now denied.
In fact, it’s quite the opposite. By not having spent all that money on decaying infrastructures and clinging on to old models, Third World nations can build far more efficient infrastructures. They can build efficient clean renewable energy systems, not having to worry about the fate of their existing grids. They can build and expand new and existing cities using the state-of-the-art in LEED compliant technologies. They can have far more efficient ways of moving people and freight around. Benefiting from all that you stuff they could become way he more productive than first world nations. First world nations could in fact become dinosaurs in the new knowledge and creative economy which will drive the 21st century. Advantage: Third World nations.

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• Food import export and the Asian diet In a recent visit to China and South Korea, Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, of course discussed many topics. One topic was Canadian beef import to South Korea. Following the mad cow disease situation, South Korea has banned the import of Canadian beef for past six years. Currently, Asia has......
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• Buildings and energy consumption. An interesting article on the architecture 2030 website about energy consumption as it relates to buildings. The article shows three pie charts with the first two showing U.S. energy consumption and the third one showing worldwide energy consumption. Surprisingly, it shows that transportation only accounts for 1% of energy consumption......

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Most of that energy requirement could be reduced by having more intelligent HVAC systems, better insulation and heat management. But most importantly, large buildings could incorporate energy producing features such as harnessing wind and solar energy as well as geothermal energy.

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According to the Conservatives, the Liberals have an agenda:  They want to rule the world.  Here are the facts: 

Al Gore owns 100% of 100% of all the green companies in the world, on top of donating money to all those non-profit organizations who own large pieces of land that they keep unspoiled, forcing us to save the ecosystem instead of being able to exploit the land for coal, natural gas, oil, or to cover the land with concrete and asphalt for parking lots, car manufacturing plants, or mega surface stores.

 Natural resources are limitless, God says so!  It’s written in the Bible, not exactly like that but, we conservatives can make the Bible say anything we want, after all we are spin experts.

 All of our natural resources should be exploited in order to keep our manufacturing sectors alive, since it controls the economy.  8% of total jobs in the U.S. are from this sector, so of course that 8% controls the economy, and not the 40% + jobs in the service sector.

 It is impossible to have a strong sustainable economy with green sustainable companies.   It absolutely has to be oil.  After all, the great world civilizations’ economy,  Egypt, Greece, Rome, and China, were based on oil.

 Pollution is good.  God says so in the Bible.  As Conservatives, we must vanquish those Liberals before they destroy the planet with their green economy.

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Most people still have a bucolic view of agriculture. In fact, modern agriculture is far from green.

It is in fact, one of the largest contributor to green house gas.

Unfortunately, organic farming is not as productive. In fact, it is said that today’s yield is bout 10 times what it was in the 1930s when farming was pretty much organic.

Organic farmers would likely defend their ways by claiming that organic farming has also evolved since the1930s. Even so,, with shrinking farmland and increasing worldwide demand for food, even today’s farming practices are stretched to the limits and the agro-industrial complex is looking towards transgenic foods as a solution.

Consumers may have let pass the use of chemical fertilizers,herbicides and pesticides but when it comes to using GMO in food production, that’s where it stops. Today’s population is better informed and won’t just take anything that is put in their dinner plate.

That is the problem we are now facing: Food scarcity. After decades of mono culture, the topsoil has given out all that it could as far as nutrients is concerned. Real estate developers keep on buying farms and turning them into ever expanding suburbs. Governments rezone forests into farmland.  Environmentalists protest the turning of forests into more polluting farmlands.

More people, less farmland, less productive land. How do we get out of this mess?

The solution may lie in greenhouse farming.

More on that in a future post.

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