Lawrence Solomon
March 20, 2008
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2008/03/20/kyoto-s-latest-victim-solomon.aspx
Climate change alarmism continues to wreak havoc throughout the world,
Egypt being the most recent example. In the last year, bread prices have
climbed 36%, leading to rioting by the hungry. Bread riots are also
occurring Yemen and Pakistan, as they have in other countries over the
last year, while in other nations food protests have taken other forms.
The cause of this upset, the Third World perceives, is the wholesale
conversion of food crops to fuel uses. With the West's
climate-change-panicked governments desperate to take action, any
action, to be seen to be doing something, the world's agriculture has
been turned to the service of filling the gas tanks of the trendy. It is
done in the name of sustainable development but just how sustainable is
this development?
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Warmest Regards
Bonzo
"Let me say it plainly: The environmental movement has been taken over
by anti-capitalist radicals who are using it to wage war against
capitalism and campaign for liberal Democrats. Protecting the
environment is now number three, or lower, on their list of priorities."
Joe Bast, President, Heartland Institute, One-time Ardent
Environmentalist, Has seen it from both sides.
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