UN Summit On Climate Change: Feeding More People Worldwide (3R’s, Reduce Reuse and Recycle)
By Joy Lynn Clark
September 22, 2014
Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle by Dazee Dizzle
A week ago I threw away a bunch of ears of corn. Most of them lacked kernels, some were deformed, and then one had a worm. I was so mad. The funny thing was that one of the ladies in the store was opening all of the ears of corn and I thought she was so rude. I walked up and took the only ones she hadn’t opened. I think I am so smart sometimes. I got home to find that I had picked all of the bad corn.
A month ago I bought a bag of potatoes that had a worm in every single one. I was mad. This had happened last summer too. Why doesn’t someone tell me about this stuff? I would have gladly bought the stuff frozen.
Last night, I decided to see if there were any crop failures or anything like that. I came across an article that said that there is going to be a surplus in the corn harvest. I hope it wasn’t a surplus of the kind of stuff I have been getting. The article said that farmers would be upset because of the drop in the price of corn. Oh.
That brings me to the worms. Is this what we mean by GMO? Are the worms safe to eat? Should I just open the corn and throw the worm out? I was hoping for some kind of microbe. Really. The possibility of a higher crop yield and perhaps less pesticides is appealing.
Unfortunately, I come upon an article about southern corn blight http://www2.nau.edu/~372-c/class/sex/cornbl.htm It sucks. A lot of biological stuff but, it decribes a lot of what I saw in the grocery store. The Wall Street Journal online quotes farmer Jeff Brown from Decatur Ill as saying, “We’re going to drown in corn this year”. Damn, how come I am not getting any. http://online.wsj.com/articles/u-s-farmers-are-up-to-their-ears-in-corn-1408318910.
There was another article that mentioned that the “worm” is part of being GMO. However, I think it is widely accepted that the worm destroys crops.
My whole plan was to tell you about how one should reduce, reuse, and recycle. However, as I perused the UN site for climate change, one of the 22 points made was how more people will be fed worldwide. So, are going to have more food or did the crops fail? Or will we not know until we open it.
Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle lyrics as taken from the recording
Come go with me
To another place
Where there is no waste
And don’t occupy much space
And all you see is green
Between renewable things
And the rainbow in our prism
Wont turn this into a prison
We don’t have awhile
Gotta change our lifestyle
And it won’t be that long
Til our finite resources are gone
When I think of my son
He’ll have to fix the mess we’ve begun
And in the back of my mind
I pray the end don’t come in his lifetime
So I show him what I can
And pray he’ll be a better man
Hope the rainbow in our prism
Won’t turn this into a prison
We don’t have awhile
Gotta change our lifestyle
And it won’t be that long
Til our finite resources are gone
I know you probably heard this a million times
So I hope I plant the seed deeper in your mind
Climate change is real so don’t be blind
The earth needs to heal like thoughts need a mind
We don’t have awhile
Gotta change our lifestyle
And it won’t be that long
Til our finite resources are gone
As we grow with age
We get stuck in our ways
Some say these are the last days
I wonder if they’re willing to change
And as I think on the end
I don’t know when it will begin
Myself I can’t forgive
If its due to the life that I live
We don’t have awhile
Gotta change our lifestyle
And it won’t be that long
Til our finite resources are gone
