[lbo-talk] Enough With the China Shtick Already!

[brad bauerly]

Although not dealing with climate change, Philip McMichael argues (both in
MR and in Agriculture and Human Values) that the cause of the 2007-08 food
crisis was the Chinese adopting western meat-centered diets and car
culture.  The corporate controlled globalized agriculture model, according
to McMichael, could not keep up with this new demand.  Never mind the fact
that food stock-to-use ratios were not at unprecedented low levels and that
the huge bubble in the commodity markets, once it popped, accounted for the
vast majority of the rise in prices.  Neo-Malthusianism disguised as lefty
theory.  Yuck!!

Brad


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> OK, fine, but _I_ still haven't heard it directly from my neighbors and
> lefty friends... I never said it wasn't out there.
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> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:17 AM, James Heartfield <
> Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
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> > Alan Rudy says 'I haven't heard this argument from lefty
> > environmentalists', of Dwayne's eg of environmentally-worded China
> bashing.
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> > spiked-online keeps a watch on China-bashing which includes many examples
> > of environmentally-inspired China-bashing, here:
> > http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/issues/C136/
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> >   etc etc....
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