24 January 2007

Wrong! Wrong! Just plain wrong!

Today's been, and will continue to be, a hectic day and I shan't have an opportunity to comment properly on the Decider's great speech last night until tomorrow but I do want to touch one his call for the use of ethanol fuel from grass and grain to somehow resolve the carbon dioxide crisis without an American sacrifice. The only positive result that this is likely to have is the bounce that it has given to ethanol stocks.

The market, to which these "Christians" are so happily wed, is completely amoral. The market will say that if Americans can and will pay a higher price for grain to used to fill up an inefficient and unnecessary motor car than others can pay for food that they require to survive there is no question as to where the grain will go. It will go to the Americans.

In a world, with a rapidly growing population, that regularly produces less food than it requires every hectare of arable land diverted from the production of food to the production of fuel will mean more people will go hungry, that more children will grow up malnourished and more people will did of starvation or diseases related to hunger. There is no doubt that, not only is this morally wrong, it is unacceptable irrespective of neo-liberal globalise capitalists believe.

We must look elsewhere and we will need to sacrifice or all will suffer. What would Jesus do?

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