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...cluster of factors is depleting the world's supply of grains. In Europe, the U.S. and Asia, more farmers are growing crops, especially corn, not as food but for conversion into biofuel. Meanwhile, demand for food is surging in China and India, where hundreds of millions of increasingly prosperous people are eating more. Though the demand in these countries is for less rice and more meat and fish, this increases the consumption of grain in the form of feed: it takes 7-15 kg of grain to produce a kilogram of meat. Record-high oil prices and escalating freight costs...
Much has been made of the convening and mobilizing power of today's technology. A person inspired by a cause can blog about their outrage and plot a response on Facebook with other similarly animated people. While any single congressional district might not produce a groundswell to demand a halt to global warming or killing in Darfur, a virtual community unmoored from geography can deliver a critical mass. And once converted, advocates are far better informed than a generation ago. They can hear the personal tales of aid workers over Skype. When the Western press steers clear, they can access...
...player by Roku ($99 at netflix.com is a black, palm-size device that connects your broadband network to your TV (wired or wirelessly). For as little as $8.99 a month, you can have unlimited access to Netflix's library of more than 10,000 movies and TV shows on demand. Watch what you want, instantly, for as long as you want. You can even start a movie on your home TV and finish watching it days later on your PC laptop at Starbucks. (Netflix's on-demand service isn't supported...
...clear this is not going to happen. And in today's harsher economic climate, governments are more likely to look for ways to scale back subsidies for renewable energy than to boost them. Nor are voters likely to be willing to pay the larger energy bills that "green" policies demand...
...hope is that Britain's shortage of housing supply may help prevent such a bloody crash. The rate of housebuilding in Ireland and Spain - both of whose markets have overheated in recent months - more than doubled in the decade to 2006. In the U.K., the increase was just 12%. Demand ought to remain robust, says Ball, with "long-term rising incomes bashing against the cliff of tight supply...