Jatropha sucks : Consider India’s great push to plant jatropha. According to the Indian environmental group, Navdanya, government foresters have drained rice paddies in order to plant jatropha in the poor and mostly tribal state of Chhattisgarh. As early as mid-2007, protests broke out in the mostly desert state of Rajasthan over a government
My young son recently asked me "What is the police?" I hesitated and he repeated the question. I knew my wife was cringing at the thought that I would start indoctrinating our children about the evils of the state and its instruments. I wanted to avoid an all-too-tempting "The police are state thugs!" reply because that would be