Belated Earth Day Post

 

            A lot of this course relates to how people are becoming alienated from the places in which they live. Well what if that place is a planet? Earth is final starting to glimpse its biological carrying capacity, and here are the first externalities. The UNWFO, which is a special agency devoted to combating hunger (Oftentimes ineffectively, such as by airdropping pork products onto Muslim strongholds in Somalia), has noted a recent link between the growth of biofuels and the soaring cost of world food, with concomitant increases in violence and human misery. The modernist shift towards limitless growth and control of the last 100 years has been sustained in part by the perceived limitless of space on Earth, but crisis’ like this suggest we’ve exhausted that space. (Of course we could get rid of absurd subsidies for corn farmers to switch to energy farming and switch to algae production for biodiesel, which is 100x more efficient)