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Originally Posted by Chris
The link that I gave explains the premise in four paragraphs (easy to read) and in 4 credible sources cited in the footnotes of the article. The main economist, Amartya Sen, is a Nobel winner. Your comment, while widely accepted, seems to be no longer accurate
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Algore won a Nobel*, too, and we see how that turned out
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There are credible economists who argue strongly against Sen's "theories" (which are really liberal/socialist political ideologies wrapped in "economists" clothing) as being very incorrect. In fact, there are credible economists who claim that Sen's policies were specificall in support of the prevailing Bengal gubmint, and not only did not reduce famine, but were a root cause of them. Additionally, credible economists and historians have accused Sen of intentionally manipulating data to achieve the conclusions he wanted (where have I heard the Left harp about THAT one before...).
I realize you're a "globalist", Chris, and fall in step with those who embrace pro-globalist agendas (like the UN; they've done a fine job of fixing world problems, huh?). I have no problem with that, as everyone is entitled to their opinion. But simply citing an article that you ~want~ to believe is so, doesn't make it so.
I read the Monbiot's agruments and the annotations and footnotes, almost all of which come from sources of "Fellow Travelers" in the Global Socialist Movement (BTW-did you know the moniker for the whacky Left, "Moonbat", is a parody of his name. Someone added "Barking" because of his style of speech. And did you know that just recently he tried a "Citizens Arrest" of John Bolton, before being toos out on his ass by security folks in GB? A classy move, huh?). I would hardly consider anything Moinbat writes as either scholarly or unbiased. Unless of course, I WANT to believe because we "in the struggle together".
One "study" which he (and, therefore you) use in his "analysis" is that small farms
IN TURKEY are like 10 or 20 times MORE PRODUCTIVE than large farms. Maybe in Turkey. But not in the First World. Not even in the DR. There are a bazillion studies that show there is clearly economies of scale with incredible increases in per-acre productivity in larger farms. They may not be as cute and warm-and-fuzzy, but they produce much more real food that the old "family farm" did. Again, maybe not in the countries that Unal studied, but in the rest of the world that produces massive amount of crops, you're gonna be hard pressed to prove it.
Before you go off on me (again), I'd ask that just for once that y'all make even the slightest mild effort to either offer a more balanced view of a topic, even if seen as weak efforts. Or at least not crucify and demean those here who do in the spirit of being fair and balanced, and offer countervailing opinions that do not agree with your fundamental political World View.
*Do you know who was up for the Nobel Peace Prize nomination with Algore? Irena Sendler. She lost. Read about her, and then tell me who should have won, her or a former politician with a discredited PPS slide show:
Irena Sendler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Originally Posted by WiKi
She organized the smuggling of Jewish children from the Ghetto, carrying them out in boxes, suitcases and trolleys.[2] Under the pretext of conducting inspections of sanitary conditions during a typhoid outbreak, Sendler visited the ghetto and smuggled out babies and small children in ambulances and trams, sometimes disguising them as packages.[5] She also used the old courthouse of the edge of the Warsaw Ghetto (still standing) as one of the main routes of smuggling children out. The children were placed with Polish families, the Warsaw orphanage of the Sisters of the Family of Mary or Roman Catholic convents such as the Sisters Little Servants of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Mary[6] at Turkowice and Chotomów. Some were smuggled to priests in parish rectories where they could be further hidden. She hid lists of their names in jars, in order to keep track of their original and new identities. Żegota assured the children that, when the war was over, they must be returned to Jewish relatives.[1]
In 1943, Sendler was arrested by the Gestapo, severely tortured, and sentenced to death. Żegota saved her by bribing German guards on the way to her execution. She was left in the woods, unconscious and with broken arms and legs.[2] She was listed on public bulletin boards as among those executed. For the remainder of the war, she lived in hiding, but continued her work for the Jewish children. After the war, she dug up the jars containing the children's identities and began an attempt to find the children and return them to living parents. However, almost all the children's parents had died at the Treblinka extermination camp.
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Just sayin'...