fancy a pint ?

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HOW YOU COULD SOON PAY ?18 FOR A BEER, THANKS TO CLIMATE CHANGE




PRICEY: A night out would become unaffordable for most Britons by 2030


FANCY a pint? That will be ?18.45


This is the price you can expect to pay for a lager by the year 2030 unless urgent action is taken to avert climate change, say environmentalists.

Soaring food prices could leave UK consumers forking out almost ?6.50 for a loaf of bread as hotter temperatures affect food supplies.

A study for Friends Of The Earth revealed the prices of basics like bread, rice and pasta could all spiral in the next two decades, leaving millions hungry in the UK.

Yields of staple crops are predicted to plunge as global temperatures rise, while climate change will also put extra pressure on land and water resources with more droughts, floods and extreme weather events expected.

The gloomy report by Ray Hammond, who studies how future trends will affect society and business and is a visiting lecturer at Oxford University?s Institute for the Future of Humanity, warned food prices could rise well above inflation by 2030.

He said global food production, which is having to cope with a rising world population increasingly eating meat which uses more resources, was ?already precarious - and climate change threatens to tip it into disaster?.

His research, based on previous price hikes recorded by the World Bank and projections by the International Food Policy Research Institute, suggested an 800g loaf of white bread which currently costs 72p would rise to ?6.48 - as opposed to the ?1.44 it would cost under normal inflation.

A litre of corn oil would rise from ?1.99 to ?17.91, a kilogram of basmati rice would increase from ?1.69 in today?s prices to ?15.21 by 2030, and 500g of cornflakes would shoot up from 78p to ?7.20.

Even beer would increase, with a pint of Pilsner lager rising from ?2.05 to ?18.45.

The study comes after a map of the impacts of a 4C rise in global temperatures published by the Government warned rice yields could drop by a third in China, India and Bangladesh and maize and wheat yields could fall by up to 40 per cent in Africa, the Americas and Asia.

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On the plus side, a 50" plasma will be ?3.99, 100Tb memory stick will be 50p. And the matter teleporter a mere ?300.

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Its got absoloutly nothing to do with "Climate Change" and everything to do with "Oil Reserves."

For instance, OIL ttakes money and energy to get out of the ground. The easiest and cheapest way of getting it is to drill on land, assemble a derrick drill and pump, a few million an operation. When those run dry you need to go to more expensive levels, like off shore platforms. These cost a LOT more than your average land operation and the deeper the water the more it will cost to retrieve the oil (till a point where it costs more money and uses more energy to extract than the oil itself will return.

Saudi Arabia contains 25% of the global oil reserve, no one finds it funny that theyve just recently begun drilling and extracting offshore?
The only feasible reason for this is because all the land based fields are running dry.

So what, i hear you moan.
well how much oil do you use on a daily basis?
Soap, shampoo, toothpaste all contain it.
Its used to harvest cheap bulk foods, oil powers the water pumps to irrigate, to power the harvesters, to power the assembly lines where it gets sorted, to deliver fertiliser, its used as pesticide, as a delivery method for fertiliser.

Food takes on average 10caliories of energy to produce a single calorie of edible food.

It then gets wrapped up in nice oil based plastics and stored in an oil powered refrigerator.

So no more oil, no more food, no more plastic, no more transportation, no more civilisation.

We've reached a point in history where the oil is getting desperately low, the costs of extraction are beginning to outweigh the benifit and consumption doesnt seem to be slowing.

By 2030 it will be economicaly unviable to use oil, it will be more expensive and use up more energy to produce that you'll see from its use, the price of beer will not be a priority.

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the price of beer will not be a priority.

~~~~ing is to us owl pts m8

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~~~~ing is to us owl pts m8

I dunno in the grand scheme of things, being unable to get to your work, having no clean hot running water or electricity and having a destinct lack of food seems more important to me.

That and the global riots.