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To: BubbaFred who wrote (36634)	7/27/2003 8:13:51 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

Droughts come and go and increasingly are irrelevant. When people were 80% rural and agricultural, droughts loomed large. Now, around the world, economies are 98% non agricultural and big ships can move agricultural products around. There hasn't been a natural famine for half a century anywhere. They are civil war famines and political Write our own History famines [such as North Korea apparently suffered]. If it's droughting somewhere, it's raining cats and dogs elsewhere. Shortage of food is increasingly a political issue, not a natural phenomenon. And I don't mean a rich world vs poor world political issue. Mqurice