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There is no food shortage
A gap between rich and poor makes free markets fail |
Michael Tobis |
28 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| It's really an absurd travesty when starvation gets blamed on 'global warming do-gooders,' and we haven't seen the last of that. The problem is miscast, though. There isn't a food shortage, at least not yet. There is a food price crisis, which is a very different beast.Are its roots in the huge resource gap between the relatively rich and the very poor? If that's true, it has broad implications. Here's one way of looking at it, from the Omaha World-Herald:The list ... |
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