2. Sounds like the Electric Car Fiasco--EPA goes against its own policies
3. Here's something about the power of--and the variety of--regulative powers of the state. We will talk about this in Schnaiberg's treadmill model. Note the regulative power is supporting widening pollution for industry instead of regulating it for the people. In Schnaiberg's model though, remember that the 'labor-citizen-consumer' is on the side of this expansion of environmental degradation in his view.
------------------------
EPA's Glacial-Speed Approach to Global Warming
Topics: corporations | environment | global warming | health | think tanks | U.S. government
Source: Los Angeles Times, March 28, 2008
EPA Administrator Johnson
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen L. Johnson dismissed his own agency's findings that greenhouse gases threaten the public. Instead, he'll open a lengthy public comment period asking for input on greenhouse gases, before acting on a U.S. Supreme Court order requiring the EPA to regulate polluters.
Johnson's move effectively delays any federal action to limit greenhouse gas emissions until well past the end of George W. Bush's final term in office.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Johnson's slow approach "mirrors that advocated by a coalition of industry groups and conservative think tanks, including the Heritage Foundation."
A Sierra Club attorney called the delay "outrageous." Representative Henry Waxman said the Bush administration was "recklessly abandoning its responsibility to address the global warming crisis."
An EPA spokesman disagreed, calling the move "an historic moment" because "no administration has taken this step to evaluate this new pollutant."
3. This article is about noise- induced hearing loss and protection equipment. It is written based on a pilot study of 23 construction workers. It suggests that awareness training is essential for noise-filled occupations.
Even one hour training can bring positive result in order to reduce the hearing loss. If workers use ear plugs and similar protective equipments, article says risk can be lowered.
I think this is a welcome article, because awareness' is necessary for workers to use ear plugs. Many construction workers do not use ear plugs just it is uneasy and disturbing. If they know the risk, they can be encouraged to use it. Also, similar awareness camp is necessary for the resident near by the construction area.
Training encourages workers to protect hearing NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Noise-filled occupations can lead to hearing loss, but even one hour of training could encourage more workers to take the risk seriously, new research suggests. In a pilot study of 23 construction workers, researchers found that a one-hour session on lowering the risk of hearing damage increased workers' use of ear plugs and similar protective equipment. It's well known that noisy work environments, in industries such as manufacturing, transportation and construction, can eventually cause some hearing loss. Controlling noise sources is considered the best way to protect workers' hearing, but workplaces often rely on protective equipment to do the job. Many workers, however, fail to use such equipment consistently. Often they find ear plugs uncomfortable or feel they obstruct things they need to hear. In some cases, workers are not sure if the surrounding noise levels are loud enough to warrant ear protection. For the current study, researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle tested a program they developed to educate workers on the risk of noise-induced hearing loss and how to use protective equipment.Workers at a single construction company went through the one-hour session, then were surveyed over the next two weeks. Overall, the study found, the workers' use of protective equipment doubled after the training session compared with before. Dr. Richard Neitzel and his colleagues report the findings in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine. In a related study, the researchers also found that construction company employees could be successfully trained to deliver the program to their co-workers. The study, which included nine construction companies, found that trained employees did about as well as an "expert" -- a researcher in industrial safety -- in teaching the course. The findings suggest that the program would be effective outside the research setting, in the real world, according to Neitzel's team. They are continuing to study whether workers need "booster" courses over time to keep up their improved safety habits. SOURCE: American Journal of Industrial Medicine, February 2008. http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/31418
3.AI(avian influenza),sometimes Avian flu,refers to "influenza caused by viruses adapted to birds." Some AI virus can be adopted to human, and infected people of East Asia countries have died a few years ago. Some researchers say it is migratory bird who caused infection to domestic birds but others say inbreeding of domestic bird in farm is causing loss of immunity. besides get rid of domestic birds, the cause must be defined. ----------------------- Bird Flu Hits Southwest
Quarantine officials decontaminate a vehicle near a duck farm in Jeongeup, North Jeolla Province, where a second case of avian influenza broke out in less than a week, Sunday. / Yonhap By Kim Rahn Staff Reporter
The authorities have issued their highest alert warning for avian influenza after two cases were reported in the southwest of the country.
Quarantine measures have been taken to prevent the bird flu from spreading further, but the authorities are having difficulty finding the source of the epidemic.
The Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has slaughtered 300,000 chickens and ducks at farms in Gimje and Jeongeup in North Jeolla Province, and is restricting the transport of poultry in nearby regions.
The measures come after 6,000 ducks that died at a farm in Jeongeup were confirmed to be positive for the bird flu virus Saturday. Whether the virus involves the lethal H5N1 strain will be confirmed Monday.
It is the second outbreak of avian influenza this year, with the first one reported two days earlier at a chicken farm in Gimje. The two farms are 27 kilometers apart.
Restrictions have been placed on the transport of poultry as well as equipment and vehicles used at poultry farms within a radius of 10 kilometers of the outbreak sites.
More than 6,500 ducks from the farm, sent to an abattoir in Naju, South Jeolla Province, were not distributed to the market. The abattoir was closed for decontamination operations, while preventive measures were taken at the 13 poultry farms where vehicles that transported the ducks visited later.
Another duck farm in nearby Sunchang was quarantined Sunday as 50 ducks there have died daily over the past 10 days. Authorities are examining the case but said the chances of bird flu are low, as the ducks did not have any of the characteristic symptoms.
In the meantime, the ministry is having difficulty discovering how the avian influenza is being spread in the region. Previous cases occurred in winter, so authorities suspected migratory birds might be the culprit as many are still here.
Quarantine officials are checking the health of 11 foreign workers from Mongolia, Vietnam and China who were working at the Gimje poultry farm where the epidemic originated.
2. 1) Lee vows to seek consensus on disputed canal project 2) Lee`s office vows to respect public opinion in canal dispute
3. Here are two news about President Lee's a change of mind for canal project. I welcome his chang of mind to review more his project seriously and wish to not strategic retreat for opposition groups. We will be able to explain Lee's canal project as Schnaiberg's treadmill model if he really decided to construct it. It'll cause big additions to our ecosystem.
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1) Lee vows to seek consensus on disputed canal project
President Lee Myung-bak said Monday that his government will consult canal experts at home and abroad before determining whether to push ahead with his election pledge to build a cross-country waterway, according to Yonhap News Agency. Lee made the remark in a meeting with former prime ministers at the presidential office, deflecting the liberal opposition parties`
attempt to turn the canal dispute into a political issue ahead of the April 9 general elections. The nation is almost evenly divided over the project, according to various polls.
"I`ll fully collect the opinions of domestic and foreign canal experts about whether to begin the construction of the pan-Korea grand waterway," said Lee.
"(Critics) may think that my government would hastily move to launch the canal construction, but it will actually take a long period of time to review the canal project, as the length (of Seoul-Busan waterway) would exceed 500 kilometers," he said.
2008.03.31
2) Lee`s office vows to respect public opinion in canal dispute
As rival parties intensified their dispute over President Lee Myung-bak`s bid to build a cross-country waterway, the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said Sunday that the government will fully consider public opinion before launching construction, instead of unilaterally pushing ahead with the project, reported Yonhap News Agency.
The latest dispute erupted after a local broadcaster last week disclosed a confidential government document containing the detailed schedule for construction of the waterway.
The document immediately triggered heated political wrangling ahead of the April 9 general elections, with the liberal opposition parties contending that the project would be economically unviable and environmentally disastrous, let alone astronomically expensive.
Throughout the presidential campaign last year, Lee said he would spend 16 trillion won ($16.1 billion) to build a network of waterways linking South Korea`s major northern and southern rivers and branching up to major North Korean cities. He stressed that the 3,100-kilometer-long waterways would cut the nation`s logistics costs by a third, promote balanced regional development, create thousands of jobs and boost tourism. The project consists of 17 routes, including a 540-kilometer Seoul-Busan waterway to be created by linking the Han and Naktong rivers.
3. I have much concern about food problems affecting our life and environment. These days, we are hearing of food crisis and oil crisis and they are connected somewhat i think. As we learned about two contradictions of capitalism, this capitalistic society is threatening its basement: plentiful food and oil. ---------------------------- These days you hear a lot about the world financial crisis. But there’s another world crisis under way — and it’s hurting a lot more people.
Skip to next paragraph
Paul Krugman
Go to Columnist Page » Blog: The Conscience of a Liberal I’m talking about the food crisis. Over the past few years the prices of wheat, corn, rice and other basic foodstuffs have doubled or tripled, with much of the increase taking place just in the last few months. High food prices dismay even relatively well-off Americans — but they’re truly devastating in poor countries, where food often accounts for more than half a family’s spending.
There have already been food riots around the world. Food-supplying countries, from Ukraine to Argentina, have been limiting exports in an attempt to protect domestic consumers, leading to angry protests from farmers — and making things even worse in countries that need to import food.
How did this happen? The answer is a combination of long-term trends, bad luck — and bad policy.
Let’s start with the things that aren’t anyone’s fault.
First, there’s the march of the meat-eating Chinese — that is, the growing number of people in emerging economies who are, for the first time, rich enough to start eating like Westerners. Since it takes about 700 calories’ worth of animal feed to produce a 100-calorie piece of beef, this change in diet increases the overall demand for grains.
Second, there’s the price of oil. Modern farming is highly energy-intensive: a lot of B.T.U.’s go into producing fertilizer, running tractors and, not least, transporting farm products to consumers. With oil persistently above $100 per barrel, energy costs have become a major factor driving up agricultural costs.
High oil prices, by the way, also have a lot to do with the growth of China and other emerging economies. Directly and indirectly, these rising economic powers are competing with the rest of us for scarce resources, including oil and farmland, driving up prices for raw materials of all sorts.
Third, there has been a run of bad weather in key growing areas. In particular, Australia, normally the world’s second-largest wheat exporter, has been suffering from an epic drought.
O.K., I said that these factors behind the food crisis aren’t anyone’s fault, but that’s not quite true. The rise of China and other emerging economies is the main force driving oil prices, but the invasion of Iraq — which proponents promised would lead to cheap oil — has also reduced oil supplies below what they would have been otherwise.
And bad weather, especially the Australian drought, is probably related to climate change. So politicians and governments that have stood in the way of action on greenhouse gases bear some responsibility for food shortages.
Where the effects of bad policy are clearest, however, is in the rise of demon ethanol and other biofuels.
The subsidized conversion of crops into fuel was supposed to promote energy independence and help limit global warming. But this promise was, as Time magazine bluntly put it, a “scam.”
This is especially true of corn ethanol: even on optimistic estimates, producing a gallon of ethanol from corn uses most of the energy the gallon contains. But it turns out that even seemingly “good” biofuel policies, like Brazil’s use of ethanol from sugar cane, accelerate the pace of climate change by promoting deforestation.
And meanwhile, land used to grow biofuel feedstock is land not available to grow food, so subsidies to biofuels are a major factor in the food crisis. You might put it this way: people are starving in Africa so that American politicians can court votes in farm states.
Oh, and in case you’re wondering: all the remaining presidential contenders are terrible on this issue.
One more thing: one reason the food crisis has gotten so severe, so fast, is that major players in the grain market grew complacent.
Governments and private grain dealers used to hold large inventories in normal times, just in case a bad harvest created a sudden shortage. Over the years, however, these precautionary inventories were allowed to shrink, mainly because everyone came to believe that countries suffering crop failures could always import the food they needed.
This left the world food balance highly vulnerable to a crisis affecting many countries at once — in much the same way that the marketing of complex financial securities, which was supposed to diversify away risk, left world financial markets highly vulnerable to a systemwide shock.
What should be done? The most immediate need is more aid to people in distress: the U.N.’s World Food Program put out a desperate appeal for more funds.
We also need a pushback against biofuels, which turn out to have been a terrible mistake.
But it’s not clear how much can be done. Cheap food, like cheap oil, may be a thing of the past.
A very down to earth* kind of guy. I'm an environmental sociologist interested in establishing material and organizational sustainability worldwide. I'm always looking for interesting materials/technologies, inspiring ideas, or institutional examples of sustainability to inspire others to recognize their choices now. To be fatalistic about an unsustainable world is a sign of a captive mind, given all our options.
*(If "earth" is defined in a planetary sense, concerning comparative historical knowledge and interest in the past 10,000 years or so anywhere...) See both blogs.
5 comments:
1. Mark Whitaker
2. Sounds like the Electric Car Fiasco--EPA goes against its own policies
3. Here's something about the power of--and the variety of--regulative powers of the state. We will talk about this in Schnaiberg's treadmill model. Note the regulative power is supporting widening pollution for industry instead of regulating it for the people. In Schnaiberg's model though, remember that the 'labor-citizen-consumer' is on the side of this expansion of environmental degradation in his view.
------------------------
EPA's Glacial-Speed Approach to Global Warming
Topics: corporations | environment | global warming | health | think tanks | U.S. government
Source: Los Angeles Times, March 28, 2008
EPA Administrator Johnson
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen L. Johnson dismissed his own agency's findings that greenhouse gases threaten the public. Instead, he'll open a lengthy public comment period asking for input on greenhouse gases, before acting on a U.S. Supreme Court order requiring the EPA to regulate polluters.
Johnson's move effectively delays any federal action to limit greenhouse gas emissions until well past the end of George W. Bush's final term in office.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Johnson's slow approach "mirrors that advocated by a coalition of industry groups and conservative think tanks, including the Heritage Foundation."
A Sierra Club attorney called the delay "outrageous." Representative Henry Waxman said the Bush administration was "recklessly abandoning its responsibility to address the global warming crisis."
An EPA spokesman disagreed, calling the move "an historic moment" because "no administration has taken this step to evaluate this new pollutant."
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http://www.prwatch.org/node/7153
1. Madhabi Bhatta
2. Training encourages workers to protect hearing
3. This article is about noise- induced hearing loss and protection equipment. It is written based on a pilot study of 23 construction workers. It suggests that awareness training is essential for noise-filled occupations.
Even one hour training can bring positive result in order to reduce the hearing loss. If workers use ear plugs and similar protective equipments, article says risk can be lowered.
I think this is a welcome article, because awareness' is necessary for workers to use ear plugs. Many construction workers do not use ear plugs just it is uneasy and disturbing. If they know the risk, they can be encouraged to use it. Also, similar awareness camp is necessary for the resident near by the construction area.
Training encourages workers to protect hearing
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Noise-filled occupations can lead to hearing loss, but even one hour of training could encourage more workers to take the risk seriously, new research suggests.
In a pilot study of 23 construction workers, researchers found that a one-hour session on lowering the risk of hearing damage increased workers' use of ear plugs and similar protective equipment.
It's well known that noisy work environments, in industries such as manufacturing, transportation and construction, can eventually cause some hearing loss. Controlling noise sources is considered the best way to protect workers' hearing, but workplaces often rely on protective equipment to do the job.
Many workers, however, fail to use such equipment consistently. Often they find ear plugs uncomfortable or feel they obstruct things they need to hear. In some cases, workers are not sure if the surrounding noise levels are loud enough to warrant ear protection.
For the current study, researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle tested a program they developed to educate workers on the risk of noise-induced hearing loss and how to use protective equipment.Workers at a single construction company went through the one-hour session, then were surveyed over the next two weeks. Overall, the study found, the workers' use of protective equipment doubled after the training session compared with before.
Dr. Richard Neitzel and his colleagues report the findings in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine. In a related study, the researchers also found that construction company employees could be successfully trained to deliver the program to their co-workers. The study, which included nine construction companies, found that trained employees did about as well as an "expert" -- a researcher in industrial safety -- in teaching the course.
The findings suggest that the program would be effective outside the research setting, in the real world, according to Neitzel's team.
They are continuing to study whether workers need "booster" courses over time to keep up their improved safety habits.
SOURCE: American Journal of Industrial Medicine, February 2008.
http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/31418
1. Yoon-jung Kim
2. AI is killing thousand of domestic birds
3.AI(avian influenza),sometimes Avian flu,refers to "influenza caused by viruses adapted to birds." Some AI virus can be adopted to human, and infected people of East Asia countries have died a few years ago. Some researchers say it is migratory bird who caused infection to domestic birds but others say inbreeding of domestic bird in farm is causing loss of immunity.
besides get rid of domestic birds, the cause must be defined.
-----------------------
Bird Flu Hits Southwest
Quarantine officials decontaminate a vehicle near a duck farm in Jeongeup, North Jeolla Province, where a second case of avian influenza broke out in less than a week, Sunday. / Yonhap
By Kim Rahn
Staff Reporter
The authorities have issued their highest alert warning for avian influenza after two cases were reported in the southwest of the country.
Quarantine measures have been taken to prevent the bird flu from spreading further, but the authorities are having difficulty finding the source of the epidemic.
The Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has slaughtered 300,000 chickens and ducks at farms in Gimje and Jeongeup in North Jeolla Province, and is restricting the transport of poultry in nearby regions.
The measures come after 6,000 ducks that died at a farm in Jeongeup were confirmed to be positive for the bird flu virus Saturday. Whether the virus involves the lethal H5N1 strain will be confirmed Monday.
It is the second outbreak of avian influenza this year, with the first one reported two days earlier at a chicken farm in Gimje. The two farms are 27 kilometers apart.
Restrictions have been placed on the transport of poultry as well as equipment and vehicles used at poultry farms within a radius of 10 kilometers of the outbreak sites.
More than 6,500 ducks from the farm, sent to an abattoir in Naju, South Jeolla Province, were not distributed to the market. The abattoir was closed for decontamination operations, while preventive measures were taken at the 13 poultry farms where vehicles that transported the ducks visited later.
Another duck farm in nearby Sunchang was quarantined Sunday as 50 ducks there have died daily over the past 10 days. Authorities are examining the case but said the chances of bird flu are low, as the ducks did not have any of the characteristic symptoms.
In the meantime, the ministry is having difficulty discovering how the avian influenza is being spread in the region. Previous cases occurred in winter, so authorities suspected migratory birds might be the culprit as many are still here.
Quarantine officials are checking the health of 11 foreign workers from Mongolia, Vietnam and China who were working at the Gimje poultry farm where the epidemic originated.
rahnita@koreatimes.co.kr
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/04/117_22024.html
1. Park Dae-yun
2. 1) Lee vows to seek consensus on disputed canal project
2) Lee`s office vows to respect public opinion in canal dispute
3. Here are two news about President Lee's a change of mind for canal project. I welcome his chang of mind to review more his project seriously and wish to not strategic retreat for opposition groups. We will be able to explain Lee's canal project as Schnaiberg's treadmill model if he really decided to construct it. It'll cause big additions to our ecosystem.
------------------------
1) Lee vows to seek consensus on disputed canal project
President Lee Myung-bak said Monday that his government will consult canal experts at home and abroad before determining whether to push ahead with his election pledge to build a cross-country waterway, according to Yonhap News Agency.
Lee made the remark in a meeting with former prime ministers at the presidential office, deflecting the liberal opposition parties`
attempt to turn the canal dispute into a political issue ahead of the April 9 general elections. The nation is almost evenly divided over the project, according to various polls.
"I`ll fully collect the opinions of domestic and foreign canal experts about whether to begin the construction of the pan-Korea grand waterway," said Lee.
"(Critics) may think that my government would hastily move to launch the canal construction, but it will actually take a long period of time to review the canal project, as the length (of Seoul-Busan waterway) would exceed 500 kilometers," he said.
2008.03.31
2) Lee`s office vows to respect public opinion in canal dispute
As rival parties intensified their dispute over President Lee Myung-bak`s bid to build a cross-country waterway, the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said Sunday that the government will fully consider public opinion before launching construction, instead of unilaterally pushing ahead with the project, reported Yonhap News Agency.
The latest dispute erupted after a local broadcaster last week disclosed a confidential government document containing the detailed schedule for construction of the waterway.
The document immediately triggered heated political wrangling ahead of the April 9 general elections, with the liberal opposition parties contending that the project would be economically unviable and environmentally disastrous, let alone astronomically expensive.
Throughout the presidential campaign last year, Lee said he would spend 16 trillion won ($16.1 billion) to build a network of waterways linking South Korea`s major northern and southern rivers and branching up to major North Korean cities. He stressed that the 3,100-kilometer-long waterways would cut the nation`s logistics costs by a third, promote balanced regional development, create thousands of jobs and boost tourism. The project consists of 17 routes, including a 540-kilometer Seoul-Busan waterway to be created by linking the Han and Naktong rivers.
2008.03.31
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http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/
1. se kyoung, jeoung.
2. Grains Gone Wild
3. I have much concern about food problems affecting our life and environment. These days, we are hearing of food crisis and oil crisis and they are connected somewhat i think. As we learned about two contradictions of capitalism, this capitalistic society is threatening its basement: plentiful food and oil.
----------------------------
These days you hear a lot about the world financial crisis. But there’s another world crisis under way — and it’s hurting a lot more people.
Skip to next paragraph
Paul Krugman
Go to Columnist Page » Blog: The Conscience of a Liberal I’m talking about the food crisis. Over the past few years the prices of wheat, corn, rice and other basic foodstuffs have doubled or tripled, with much of the increase taking place just in the last few months. High food prices dismay even relatively well-off Americans — but they’re truly devastating in poor countries, where food often accounts for more than half a family’s spending.
There have already been food riots around the world. Food-supplying countries, from Ukraine to Argentina, have been limiting exports in an attempt to protect domestic consumers, leading to angry protests from farmers — and making things even worse in countries that need to import food.
How did this happen? The answer is a combination of long-term trends, bad luck — and bad policy.
Let’s start with the things that aren’t anyone’s fault.
First, there’s the march of the meat-eating Chinese — that is, the growing number of people in emerging economies who are, for the first time, rich enough to start eating like Westerners. Since it takes about 700 calories’ worth of animal feed to produce a 100-calorie piece of beef, this change in diet increases the overall demand for grains.
Second, there’s the price of oil. Modern farming is highly energy-intensive: a lot of B.T.U.’s go into producing fertilizer, running tractors and, not least, transporting farm products to consumers. With oil persistently above $100 per barrel, energy costs have become a major factor driving up agricultural costs.
High oil prices, by the way, also have a lot to do with the growth of China and other emerging economies. Directly and indirectly, these rising economic powers are competing with the rest of us for scarce resources, including oil and farmland, driving up prices for raw materials of all sorts.
Third, there has been a run of bad weather in key growing areas. In particular, Australia, normally the world’s second-largest wheat exporter, has been suffering from an epic drought.
O.K., I said that these factors behind the food crisis aren’t anyone’s fault, but that’s not quite true. The rise of China and other emerging economies is the main force driving oil prices, but the invasion of Iraq — which proponents promised would lead to cheap oil — has also reduced oil supplies below what they would have been otherwise.
And bad weather, especially the Australian drought, is probably related to climate change. So politicians and governments that have stood in the way of action on greenhouse gases bear some responsibility for food shortages.
Where the effects of bad policy are clearest, however, is in the rise of demon ethanol and other biofuels.
The subsidized conversion of crops into fuel was supposed to promote energy independence and help limit global warming. But this promise was, as Time magazine bluntly put it, a “scam.”
This is especially true of corn ethanol: even on optimistic estimates, producing a gallon of ethanol from corn uses most of the energy the gallon contains. But it turns out that even seemingly “good” biofuel policies, like Brazil’s use of ethanol from sugar cane, accelerate the pace of climate change by promoting deforestation.
And meanwhile, land used to grow biofuel feedstock is land not available to grow food, so subsidies to biofuels are a major factor in the food crisis. You might put it this way: people are starving in Africa so that American politicians can court votes in farm states.
Oh, and in case you’re wondering: all the remaining presidential contenders are terrible on this issue.
One more thing: one reason the food crisis has gotten so severe, so fast, is that major players in the grain market grew complacent.
Governments and private grain dealers used to hold large inventories in normal times, just in case a bad harvest created a sudden shortage. Over the years, however, these precautionary inventories were allowed to shrink, mainly because everyone came to believe that countries suffering crop failures could always import the food they needed.
This left the world food balance highly vulnerable to a crisis affecting many countries at once — in much the same way that the marketing of complex financial securities, which was supposed to diversify away risk, left world financial markets highly vulnerable to a systemwide shock.
What should be done? The most immediate need is more aid to people in distress: the U.N.’s World Food Program put out a desperate appeal for more funds.
We also need a pushback against biofuels, which turn out to have been a terrible mistake.
But it’s not clear how much can be done. Cheap food, like cheap oil, may be a thing of the past.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/07/opinion/07krugman.html?_r=2&ref=opinion&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
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