Rejoice, environmentalists! Mass starvation is at hand!

Via Insty, better start stocking up on bread. There’s a virus out there that’s killing wheat:

Indeed, 90 percent of the world’s wheat has little or no protection against the Ug99 race of P. graminis. If nothing is done to slow the pathogen, famines could soon become the norm — from the Red Sea to the Mongolian steppe — as Ug99 annihilates a crop that provides a third of our calories…

…Ug99 could easily make the transoceanic leap to the United States. All it would take is for a single spore, barely bigger than a red blood cell, to latch onto the shirt of an oblivious traveler. The toll from that would be ruinous; the US Department of Agriculture estimates that more than 40 million acres of wheat would be at serious risk if Ug99 came to these shores, where the grain is the third most valuable crop, trailing only corn and soybeans. The economic loss might easily exceed $10 billion; a simple loaf of bread could become a luxury. “If this stuff gets into the Western Hemisphere,” Steffenson says, “God help us.”

I wonder if this could be another one of those government-made viruses, created to cut down on “undesirable” populations? You know, like the AIDS virus, or crack cocaine.

Previously: Global Warming Providing Solution to Overpopulation Woes.