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Will Finland admit publicly when it fails or will they just hide their idea as if it never happened? Remember Bio-Fuel? How progressive and wonderful it was su

Will Finland admit publicly when it fails or will they just hide their idea as if it never happened? Remember Bio-Fuel? How progressive and wonderful it was suppose to be? Until it caused a global food shortage and suddenly none of the media ever talked about it again.

acbabis 10y ago
Global food shortage? If you're talking about ethanol from corn, that doesn't sound correct. Corn-based foods are dirt cheap
- protomyth 10y ago
  Yep, the current prices of commodities are pretty low to the point it was a campaign issue in farm country.
  - ChrisNorstrom 10y ago
    Amazing isn't it? It happened in 2008 and the progressive HN downvote brigade have already forgotten it. "“global land grab” first took off in 2008, when food prices on international markets spiked due to a boom in biofuels and growing Asian consumption of meat and dairy, setting off riots around the world and leading key grain-producing countries to introduce export bans. " The poor in Haiti had to eat dirt, it was on mainstream news but I guess the HN crowd doesn't think back that far. It actually sparked the African Land Grabs of 2007-2008 which a lot of "progressive minority lovers" don't even know about. I was on HN at the time talking about it and was purely ignored for my concern that black Africans were being kicked off their land. Yet, I've been called racist in my past few HN posts for not agreeing with far left policies on diversity enforcement. Had they looked up the Oakland Institute they would have seen that land grabs the size of France of the most fertile land in African nations were sold on 99 year leases, tax free, by countries all over the world. Harvard actually was one of those behind the investments. Now the media covers it up by calling it "a myth or exaggeration" and ignoring the riots and numerous youtube videos of villagers fighting back. sigh HN has become what Digg, Reddit, and Mashable are. Time to leave.
    - sctb 10y ago
      Such meta-commentary (bashing a community that you yourself are a part of) is off topic and only worsens the threads. Please stop doing this.

acbabis 10y ago

Global food shortage? If you're talking about ethanol from corn, that doesn't sound correct. Corn-based foods are dirt cheap

protomyth 10y ago
Yep, the current prices of commodities are pretty low to the point it was a campaign issue in farm country.
- ChrisNorstrom 10y ago
  Amazing isn't it? It happened in 2008 and the progressive HN downvote brigade have already forgotten it. "“global land grab” first took off in 2008, when food prices on international markets spiked due to a boom in biofuels and growing Asian consumption of meat and dairy, setting off riots around the world and leading key grain-producing countries to introduce export bans. " The poor in Haiti had to eat dirt, it was on mainstream news but I guess the HN crowd doesn't think back that far. It actually sparked the African Land Grabs of 2007-2008 which a lot of "progressive minority lovers" don't even know about. I was on HN at the time talking about it and was purely ignored for my concern that black Africans were being kicked off their land. Yet, I've been called racist in my past few HN posts for not agreeing with far left policies on diversity enforcement. Had they looked up the Oakland Institute they would have seen that land grabs the size of France of the most fertile land in African nations were sold on 99 year leases, tax free, by countries all over the world. Harvard actually was one of those behind the investments. Now the media covers it up by calling it "a myth or exaggeration" and ignoring the riots and numerous youtube videos of villagers fighting back. sigh HN has become what Digg, Reddit, and Mashable are. Time to leave.
  - sctb 10y ago
    Such meta-commentary (bashing a community that you yourself are a part of) is off topic and only worsens the threads. Please stop doing this.