Smug Alert Threatens Africa
November 6th, 2007 at 8:31 am by BrianI am so proud of myself. My new biofuel car gets 36 highway miles per distended belly:
It doesn’t get madder than this. Swaziland is in the grip of a famine and receiving emergency food aid. Forty per cent of its people are facing acute food shortages. So what has the government decided to export? Biofuel made from one of its staple crops, cassava.
Oh, and all the nitrogen fertilizers used to grow biofuel crops are killing the planet too. Nice going, hippies.
If the governments promoting biofuels do not reverse their policies, the humanitarian impact will be greater than that of the Iraq war. Millions will be displaced, hundreds of millions more could go hungry.
A small price for others to pay for our sanctimony.
November 6th, 2007 at 9:55 am
Don’t look at it as the death of millions by starvation. Look at it as we’re healing Mother Earth by reducing our carbon footprint.
November 6th, 2007 at 10:06 am
DDT Part II.
Brian Williams intones seriously about Biofuels then Tiffani in Marin heads into the City to rally for Biofuel legislation. A bipartisan bill is forged and plenty of pork subsidies are generated.
Meanwhile 10,000 die.
Gawd this stuff makes me sick.
November 6th, 2007 at 11:25 am
“If the governments promoting biofuels do not reverse their policies, the humanitarian impact will be greater than that of the Iraq war.”
A commie comes out with something that might be worse to all humanity than the Iraq war? Somebody FIRE that writer!! He’s been bought and paid for by the Bush administration!
November 6th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
[...] Brian of Six Meat Buffet examines the law of unintended consequences in his provocative post ‘Smug Alert over Africa’, wherein he quotes an article from the Guardian: [...]
November 6th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
Don’t look at it as the death of millions by starvation. Look at it as we’re healing Mother Earth by reducing our carbon footprint.
Hippies don’t give a damn about the poor. Mother Earth is more important. Hippies actually tell us there are too many humans. Yet unfortunately, the hippies still reproduce. They just want everyone else to use birth control.
Seriously, what can you do with hippies? Even with a Phd, they still cannot master the job of a fry cook at McDonald’s. They worry the potatoes may be in pain…
I love it when people blog about the “Law of Unintended Consequences”. If we could bottle this, it would make a fine hippie repellent.
November 6th, 2007 at 10:42 pm
There’s nothing new here. Food has been used as a political weapon for a long time. The Soviets starved millions of kulaks (not just the Ukes) as did the Chinese in their forced collectivization efforts. Somali warlords played the same tune in the early 90′s when they tried to starve the population into submission.
Al Gore has precipitated a new diet plan for the 21st century. Maybe he’ll get another Nobel Prize for it.
The next time you gas up, sniff the gas nozzle and then run around the station screaming “It’s People! It’s People!” ala Chuck Heston in Soylent Green. Maybe someone will get the picture.
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