I'd just like to say to one and all that the idea of China, India and other developing countries "causing" the current food and oil price rises by their new and untoward propensity to consume is just ridiculous.
If North Americans, Europeans, Japanese and Australians would cut their steak in half, take public transportation once in a while and turn off their TV when they're not being hypnotized by it, prices would fall to the level of everyone's dinner table. Then maybe we could not only have more interesting discussions of international relations, but even accept that we all live on this planet together and have the same rights to its abundance. best from Terra, Brian Holmes -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://link.mail2web.com/mail2web # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
