[Plantagenet]

Tortilla price crisis in Mexico: link
Caused by growing US demand for ethanol.

[NEOPO]

ty for bumping up threads that deal with such controversial subjects as you are normally such a waste of harddrive space. The re-reading of my own post's help's to reconfirm the genius contained within

[Plantagenet]

DNFTT.

FEMA is preparing in advance for a repetition of the Mariel immigrant flood, but on an even larger scale. Wake UP---This may be the only bit of common sense FEMA has ever shown.

Peak Oil is going to hit Mexico HARD. Mexico nationalized their oil biz decades ago, and now that Cantarell has peaked, oil revenues to the Mexican government are going to drop quickly. We've got 12-20 million illegals now, mostly from Mexico. About 1 in 10 of all Mexicans are in the US right now.

If the economy goes down in Mexico and food gets scarce due to Peak Oil, you can bet millions and millions of Mexicans are going to follow their hermanos y hermanas and try to flood across the US border.

[eastbay]

... ICE to respond on a quick basis to an illegal-immigration crisis.

Getting them to respond to anything other than Starbucks is nearly impossible. Don't expect much 'catching' from ICE in the event of a quickly developing mass-migration... I mean if it's significantly 'masser' than the migration from Mexico already is.

Currently they catch about one in a hundred and most of them are 'caught' as they prepare to walk out of jail or prison after serving a sentence. If an illegal can manage to stay out of jail the chances of getting 'caught' by ICE is about zero.

[Polybius]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', 'T')he positive feedback loops are all now strongly functioning, and to me they guarantee the failure of any attempt to even slow global warming. Despite all the talk and thrashing around, CO2 levels, as measured at Mauna Loa, continue to increase every year, EVEN in 2020 when so much was shut down, and again this year. Finally and worst of all, we have human nature to deal with. At this point, NOTHING can "save the world." The only realistic question is when collapse and dieback begin.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Polybius', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', 'T')he positive feedback loops are all now strongly functioning, and to me they guarantee the failure of any attempt to even slow global warming. Despite all the talk and thrashing around, CO2 levels, as measured at Mauna Loa, continue to increase every year, EVEN in 2020 when so much was shut down, and again this year. Finally and worst of all, we have human nature to deal with. At this point, NOTHING can "save the world." The only realistic question is when collapse and dieback begin.

[evilgenius]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Polybius', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', 'T')he positive feedback loops are all now strongly functioning, and to me they guarantee the failure of any attempt to even slow global warming. Despite all the talk and thrashing around, CO2 levels, as measured at Mauna Loa, continue to increase every year, EVEN in 2020 when so much was shut down, and again this year. Finally and worst of all, we have human nature to deal with. At this point, NOTHING can "save the world." The only realistic question is when collapse and dieback begin.

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Polybius', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', 'T')he positive feedback loops are all now strongly functioning, and to me they guarantee the failure of any attempt to even slow global warming. Despite all the talk and thrashing around, CO2 levels, as measured at Mauna Loa, continue to increase every year, EVEN in 2020 when so much was shut down, and again this year. Finally and worst of all, we have human nature to deal with. At this point, NOTHING can "save the world." The only realistic question is when collapse and dieback begin.