Ronin of the Spirt
A lone ronin, truth in hand, wandering the plains of Academia

Posts Tagged ‘consumption’

World Food Crisis

April 28, 2008

You might be aware of the impending world food crisis. People in the less affluent world are going to start dropping dead like flies, apparently, because food is too hard to get or too expensive.

There are a number of micro-explanations for this, but pretty much everyone agrees that the macro-explanation is a causal chain [...]

One hundred four slaves and counting

March 31, 2008

Ok, so I was paying my electric bill today. Now, you might expect that this is where I complain about how the evil electric company is charging me usurious rates and how unfair it is. I don’t do that, because I am not a freaking commie. I don’t think the answer [...]