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Guardian – Fears for the world’s poor countries as the rich grab land to grow food

The acquisition of farmland from the world’s poor by rich countries and international corporations is accelerating at an alarming rate, with an area half the size of Europe’s farmland targeted in the last six months, reports from UN officials and agriculture experts say.

New reports from the UN and analysts in India, Washington and London estimate that at least 30m hectares is being acquired to grow food for countries such as China and the Gulf states who cannot produce enough for their populations. According to the UN, the trend is accelerating and could severely impair the ability of poor countries to feed themselves.

Dette er feil tidspunkt i historien for hele land å gå konk på.

Internett og Web 2.0 under lupen

hypotese: Internett er kraftig oppskrytt, og beholder populariteten mest på grunn av misforståelser og computerhypnoseeffekten.

Critics such as Andrew Keen argue that Web 2.0 has created a cult of digital narcissism and amateurism, which undermines the notion of expertise by allowing anybody, anywhere to share (and place undue value upon) their own opinions about any subject and post any kind of content regardless of their particular talents, knowledgeability, credentials, biases or possible hidden agendas. He states that the core assumption of Web 2.0, that all opinions and user-generated content are equally valuable and relevant is misguided, and is instead “creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity: uninformed political commentary, unseemly home videos, embarrassingly amateurish music, unreadable poems, essays and novels,” also stating that Wikipedia is full of “mistakes, half truths and misunderstandings”.

Paradoksalt nok hentet fra Wikipedias artikkel om “Web 2.0″.

Og da har ikke engang fenomenet “internett-psykopati” blitt nevnt: At flere enn jeg liker oppfører seg som totale drittsekker på nettet.

At Norge kanskje er det landet i verden der internett står sterkest trenger på flere måter ikke å være positivt i det hele tatt. Men på den annen side blir det kanskje vi som først går lei og skjønner tegningen.