2008-02-19

History Repeating Itself

By 1901, Brazil had converted too much of its farm land to coffee production. They subsequently found themselves importing flour for high cost when they could simply grow it domestically.

I immediately thought of the corn for Ethanol situation the USA is currently in. How long can we keep up this shortsightedness?

1 comments:

Jacob said...

A) Until our shortsightedness leads to irreversible catastrophe.

B) Until we get better glasses.