American politicians and the media seem to be unable to place the blame for food shortages where it really belongs, but at least India got some publicity this week when they slammed President Bush for his comments which appeared to blame China and India for the problem.
Our country uses more than our fair share of everything on the planet, yet seems to believe we are entitled to get it all for dirt cheap. If politicians had been willing to practice some leadership ten years ago on issues like renewable energy, gas mileage, suburban development, farmland preservation, nutrition and others, our country might have been in a really different place now.
On the flipside, all of us who have been working on these issues on a personal level -- reduce, reuse, recycle -- for years are going to be able to make the transition to the economics of scarcity much more smoothly than the folks who've been pretending that the U.S. is its own planet.
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