and what about President Brendan O'Yeltsin? I'm afraid this story is very reminiscent of that of the 1840s Irish spud shortage. People driven to small plots of land to grow taters; tubers taking a larger and larger share of the diet; a blight hits the crop while capitalist greed prevents relief .... and suddenly the world is swamped by large numbers of refugees (while millions starve). Here global warming seems to be playing a role, by disrupting normal weather patterns. At 02:26 PM 9/3/98 -0500, you wrote: >Moscow Times >September 3, 1998 >Now, a Real Crisis: No Potato Crop >By Natalya Shulyakovskaya >Staff Writer > Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://clawww.lmu.edu/Departments/ECON/jdevine.html
