John Feffer
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John Feffer is co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies and the author of numerous articles on food policy and on North Korea.
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Mother Earth's triple whammy
Why North Korea was a global crisis canary 5
Posted 1 year, 5 months agoThis essay was originally published on TomDispatch and is reprinted here with Tom's kind permission.
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Gas prices are above $4 a gallon; global food prices surged 39 percent last year; and an environmental disaster looms as carbon emissions continue to spiral upward. The global economy appears on the verge of a TKO, a triple whammy from energy, agriculture, and climate-change trends. Right now you may be grumbling about the extra bucks you're shelling out at the pump and the grocery store, but, unless policymakers begin to address all three of these trends as one major crisis, it could… Read More