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The Sky Is Falling -- The China Food Edition

By Dan Harris and Steve Dickinson

I always see the glass half full. Global warming? I left the Midwest because of the cold. Overpopulation? Beats war and pandemics. Just old news. Limited fuel supply? Whatever. I nonetheless am a bit troubled after reading an article, entitled, "Food Security: Moving Towards the Precipice?" (h/t to China Economic Review Blog) The article is mostly an interview with Paul Ehrlich, president of the Center for Conservation Biology and Professor of Population Studies at Stanford University. Ehrlich sees food affordability as an increasingly important issue and he thinks emerging market countries like China will bear the brunt of it. He calls this "an extremely complex issue -- but the bottom line is that China and the world are accelerating in the fog toward a precipice." Pretty scary stuff. True or false?

Full post as published by China Law Blog on March 03, 2008 (boomark / email).