[JLS]

My guess is his green revolution led to economies of scale in agriculture in other parts of the world causing subsistance farmer to be force off their plots? I looked in wikipedia and the main controversy they mentioned was fertilizing and genetic engineering.

Remember the Ludites of the left are generally against us living better lives. In that respect algore is in a long leftist tradition and Hitchens is out of step.

[GregoryFul]

Perhaps you mean Alexander Cockburn, the author of the article, and not Christoper Hitchens.

[cgbg]

the Ludites of the left are generally against us living better lives.

The Left lives in mortal fear that some third world children might be able to rise out of poverty and become wealthy greedy polluting capitalists living in mcmansions and driving their large families around in gas-guzzling SUVs.

It is the job of the oligharchs that rule most of those countries to make sure that dosen't happen.

:-(

[sport]

Remember the Ludites of the left are generally against us living better lives. In that respect algore is in a long leftist tradition and Hitchens is out of step.

13 posted on 10/20/2007 1:55:39 PM PDT by JLS

They are only against us living better lives. They themselves live in the lap of luxury.

However, they are for being our masters i.e. owners. Unfortunately, they are huge numbers in the US of A that also feel they should be our masters. So long as they give us free health care and American Idol.