John Feffer, co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus, has written an interesting article using North Korea as the canary in the coal mine, contrary to how many of us might view the weird country called North Korea with the bizarre dictator.
Feffer speaks of the 3-prong threat of rising gas prices, global food prices, and environmental disaster. But, as he points out, all three have to be addressed simultaneously if we are to be successful.
He also suggests (my word) that the economic "theologies" of both communism (read centralized planning) and capitalism are probably ready for the garbage truck.
Feffer leaves us with the idea of the distance we still have to travel and the tough realities that the citizens of the developed world will have to face soon. Yes we are living in "interesting" times. Go to We are all North Koreans.
I'm not sure who you're talking to
I'm not sure who you're talking to -- the entire human race became extinct over a 20 year period starting in the mid '70s, due to the twin disasters of global cooling and a worldwide food shortage.
Too bad we didn't adopt North Korea's living standards THEN, as many experts said we needed to. If we had, we'd all still be alive today. Too bad.
Excellent Point
Excellent point, Charlene12. These alarmists, screaming, "the sky is falling, the sky is falling," are the same deniers who claimed the scientists who debunked the global-cooling hoax in the 1970s were not "credible."
Now, they claim (without support) that the more than 31,000 American scientists who debunk the global warming hoax (here:http://www.petitionproject.org/) are not "serious" scientists. And why? Becaue Al Gore -- theultimate scientist -- made a movie (with, false, computer-generated images of polar ice caps melting and falling into the ocean ... though the truth is they are as big as ever, by the way).