The Real Hunger Games.

As I woke up this morning to unusually hot June weather I made a cup of coffee and turned on MSNBC only to find the host interviewing the author of a new book that takes a look at the struggles and demons President Obama had growing up. Next they announced a new show with rotating hosts and are injecting a Conservative host to give a balanced point of view. Next I turned on FOX and they were doing their own usual hatchet job on Democrats and the President.  I turned on the radio and listened when a host said President Obama could not work with the opposition like Reagan could. He lacked the skills. I turned on my computer and could not fins stories about the effects of climate change. I looked at the local paper on line and read stories about gas drilling in my county.

This started me thinking. If gas and oil companies were offering huge money to gain the mineral rights to all the land in my area what was their end game? Were they trying to get the last bit of fossil fuels out of the ground before they ran out?  What will happen to the water and land? Will it ever be put back into production and produce food or will this only add to the predicted food shortages the next 30 years and cause severe illness and death to the world’s population?

Shouldn’t the media be concentrating on the real issues that will affect our future or are they just ignoring the problem?  Have the Conservatives already succeeded in using hug amounts of money to control the message that people are hearing?

Will the media ever report stories about the heat in Texas and California? Will they ever explain about the coming food shortages and the illness and death that will result?  Will they continue to ignore these problems until it is too late and the wealthy have squeezed out every cent out of the earth before the gas and oil are gone and we are left with nothing? Is the movie The Hunger Games just a story or a predictor of our future?