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7/21/2008 It was difficult for me to decide whether to put this
article in the Good or Harmful category, but the benefits
of defining the population catastrophe in Egypt a little better made me
go for the positives. Notwithstanding my guarded optimism, the
food and water supplies in the Sub-Saharan Africa seem to be going from
bad to worse. Click
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5/13/2008 Despite best efforts of US agribusiness to put the poor
Mexican farmers out of existence, some of them persist and are battling
500 years of environmental degradation. These farmers are the true
heroes of the 21st century! Click
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5/10/2008 Finally! Americans, who were not supposed to give
up their gas-guzzling cars at any price, are behaving exactly as some of
us have been predicting all along. The cherished "right" to
personal transportation has been devalued just like the US dollar. If
the price of gasoline is high enough, the subsidized mass transit
systems become an attractive alternative to having no money in one's
pocket. A higher gas tax should have been paying for upgrades in
public transportation systems for many years. So now 2-out of-3
presidential hopefuls are trying to get the good citizens to eat their
transportation as well by rescinding this very gasoline tax. What disdain they
must feel for the electorate's common sense? Are they right? Am I
wrong in thinking that most Americans are still capable of
distinguishing between reality and empty propaganda we have been fed by
the very people who loath us? Click
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5/07/2008 What a relief to see people taking charge of
their food supply and fate! No more waiting for our "representatives,"
who are trying hard to give away the store to their rich friends under
the disguise of a new "Farm Bill." Click
here |
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4/8/2008 The free ride for American consumers is ending, this
time forever. It is time for us to sober up. Click
here |
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4/7/2008 Paul Krugman, one of the two economists I respect
(the other one is Herman Daly), briefly and lucidly summarizes the
current world food situation and the agrofuel scam. Click
here |
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3/27/2008 Despite a propaganda blitz against photovoltaics from
the Berkeley Biosciences Institute, the Southern California Edison is
doing the only sensible thing: installing more solar panels than anyone
in the US. Edison is betting on a technology that is 100 - 1000 times
more efficient than the best agrofuel systems in delivering mechanical
work of a rotating shaft. A factor of 100 is the difference
between running at 9 km/h and flying a jet at 900 km/h. By the
time the avid advocates of imaginary agrofuels wake up, the world will
have passed them by and shrugged its collective arms. Click
here
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3/1/2008 The Norwegian government is trying the preserve some of
the planetary heritage from our fantastic lack of imagination and
stupidity. When I listen to the GMO crowds and the synthetic biology
demigods, I shiver. Click
here |
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1/14/2008 Europe is waking up from the long agrofuel nightmare.
Click
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