The Environmental Defense Fund this week released a “study” purporting to show that instituting a cap-and-trade system to reduce carbon emissions in the United States would have virtually no economic impact. These claims would be laughably false if policies previously adopted at the behest of the environmental movement were not already contributing to the starvation of millions worldwide. Biofuel mandates and hunger According to the World Food Program, more than 100 million people are being driven into poverty by a “silent tsunami” of sharply rising food prices. The hungry are rioting in …
