http://www.metafilter.com/tags/globalcrisis Posts tagged with 'globalcrisis' at MetaFilter. Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:34:06 -0800 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:34:06 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/64249/Feed%2DThe%2DBeast%2DStarve%2Dthe%2DPeople <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/aug/29/food.g2">The looming food crisis</a> is already upon us. The Institute for Food and Development - Food First - whose Policy is to eliminate the <a href="http://www.foodfirst.org/node/1711">injustices that cause hunger</a> is joined by Green Horizon talking about a <a href="http://www.green-horizon.org/blog/archives/sustainability/global_food_cri.shtml">global food crisis emerging</a>. By promoting biodiesel as a substitute, we have missed the fact that it is <a href="http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/120605EA.shtml">worse than the fossil-fuel burning it replaces</a>. As a result <a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/07/14/ethanol_pla.html?category=earth&guid=20060714120030">the line between the food economy and energy economy has become blurred</a>. In the United States and Canada, governments are <a href="http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/environment/story.html?id=df4d03aa-6754-4529-80a9-73aa9e98c087&p=2">manipulating the market</a> in the biofuels industry. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.64249 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:34:06 -0800 biofuel globalcrisis hunger starvation adamvasco