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The Iowa Floods Will Change Agriculture Forever

Posted June 30, 2008

“Iowa in 2008 will be an even slower-motion disaster than Hurricane Katrina in 2005.” — James Howard Kunstler, Whiskey & Gunpowder

by James Howard Kunstler

Baltimore and Saratoga Springs, N.Y. – (TFN): A catastrophe for Iowa farmers will not be just a catastrophe for Midwestern Americans. In the Iowa flooding, we’ll see more evidence of how the problems of weird weather (climate change) combine and ramify the problems associated with Peak Oil. In this particular case they lead to an inflection point sometime around the 2008 harvest season, which will also be our time of political harvest.

These are not your daddy’s or granddaddy’s floods. These are 500-year floods, events not seen since Europeans started living out on that stretch of the North American prairie. The vast majority of homeowners in eastern Iowa did not have flood insurance because the likelihood of being affected above the 500-year-line was so miniscule — their insurance agents actually advised them against getting it.

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The personal ruin out there will be comprehensive and profound, a wet version of the 1930s Dust Bowl, with families facing total loss and perhaps migrating elsewhere in the nation because they have no home to go back to.

Iowa in 2008 will be an even slower-motion disaster than Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Read on to learn more.

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