Raj Patel is a Research Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, author of Stuffed and Starved and, most recently, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, co-written with Jason W. Moore.
A truly democratic food system will need to rewrite the rules of our financial system.
The full extent of the damage from the BP disaster will not be known for years, but if we are to learn anything now, we must confront the question: What are the true costs of our energy needs?
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