A couple of interesting links

A couple of interesting links:

Peak grain? Scary.

and this one, why it’s hard to debate a cornucopian.

As David Denby said in The New Yorker when he reviewed Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth,

“Anyone in possession of a major truth that he can’t get others to accept begins to feel that he’s losing his mind. The skepticism he meets turns him into a soreheaded obsessive. After a while, he becomes ‘pedantic’ and then, inevitably, ‘condescending’ and ‘humorless.’ ”