http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/11/obama-cites-michael-pollan.php
In an interview with Joe Klein, Obama refers to the article,
explaining how Pollan's ideas fit into the concept of a new energy
economy.
Obama's analysis of Pollan's message:
There is no better potential driver that pervades all aspects of our
economy than a new energy economy. I was just reading an article in
the New York Times by Michael Pollen about food and the fact that our
entire agricultural system is built on cheap oil. As a consequence,
our agriculture sector actually is contributing more greenhouse gases
than our transportation sector. And in the mean time, it's creating
monocultures that are vulnerable to national security threats, are now
vulnerable to sky-high food prices or crashes in food prices, huge
swings in commodity prices, and are partly responsible for the
explosion in our healthcare costs because they're contributing to type
2 diabetes, stroke and heart disease, obesity, all the things that are
driving our huge explosion in healthcare costs. That's just one sector
of the economy. You think about the same thing is true on
transportation. The same thing is true on how we construct our
buildings. The same is true across the board.
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