Liberals Never Think Anything Through

Liberals are driven by pure emotion. We have to act now, panic people, don't let anything get in their way. OK, they got their way with biofuels so now what? If we wanted energy independence, why would burning food and deforesting the planet be the path you would choose. Why not just drill for oil in areas we have yet to do so. To think mankind will replace oil in the next 100 years is foolish, absurd to the end. The answer is because they are liberals, and liberals cannot think things through.

Like with DDT before, this has the potential to be another bad decision, resulting in many deaths worldwide. I doubt it will top the 30 million who died for lack of DDT, but it could. What if the cold winters cause crop failures?

Global food price rises are leading to "silent mass murder" and commodities markets have brought "horror" to the world, the United Nations' food envoy told an Austrian newspaper on Sunday.

Jean Ziegler, U.N. special rapporteur on the right to food, told Kurier am Sonntag that growth in biofuels, speculation on commodities markets and European Union export subsidies mean the West is responsible for mass starvation in poorer countries.

Ziegler said he was bound to highlight the "madness" of people who think that hunger is down to fate.

"Hunger has not been down to fate for a long time -- just as (Karl) Marx thought. It is rather that a murder is behind every victim. This is silent mass murder," he said in an interview.

Ziegler blamed globalisation for "monopolising the riches of the earth" and said multinationals were responsible for a type of "structural violence".

"And we have a herd of market traders, speculators and financial bandits who have turned wild and constructed a world of inequality and horror. We have to put a stop to this," he said.

Ziegler said he believed that one day starving people could rise up against their persecutors. "It's just as possible as the French Revolution was," he said.

There is only so much food available on Planet Earth, and the population has grown to the point where the amount of food roughly equals the amount of people needing it. Change that balance and disaster awaits.

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