Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen has an article in The NYT, “The Rich Get Hungrier,” which is a good short summary of various causes of higher food prices and increased world hunger, and why they are related even though not the same thing.

An article on carbon traders and carbon lobbying further illustrates the point I’ve made before, that instituting GHG trading is a way of growing a whole new carbon lobby to join with the existing fossil fuel one.

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Last link: I linked to an article in The Guardian about an International Rivers study. Turns out the entire study is online, minus some errors The Guardian added. There is a reason The Guardian was once know as The Grauniad.

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