>Just curious. What accounts for the influence of types like Vandana Shiva?
She says things that alienated but prosperous Westerners want to hear - the simple folk really are happier as simple folk and should stay that way. Even though she's a globe-trotter with an advanced degree.
James Heartfield had a wonderful story about an appearance by Rigoberta Menchu in a posh leftish London neighborhood - Hampstead, was it? As long as she played the happy peasant, they loved her, but when she alluded to Lenin about the importance of rural electrification, they turned on her.
Doug