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From the page: "Since the 1980s, American agriculture has become increasingly concentrated. Today, less than 2 percent of farms account for half of all agricultural sales. The new antitrust division of President Obama's Justice Department has said that scrutinizing monopolies in agriculture is a top priority.

That shift is giving hope to independent farmers, who have complained for years that agriculture giants are shrinking the marketplace and paying farmers less for their products."

From the site: "The Real Climate Economics website offers a reader's guide to the real economics of climate change, an emerging body of scholarship that is consistent with the urgency of the problem as seen from a climate science perspective.

The scientific community has reached near universal agreement that human economic activity has a discernible impact on the global climate system and that warming of the climate system is unequivocal. The risks of climate change are real and the damages may be irreversible.

As the climate policy debate intensifies, economic analysis is playing an increasingly central role. The case for inaction is no longer argued on the grounds of skepticism about the science; instead, some have claimed that it will be too expensive to take more than token initiatives. While some economists still claim that it is too expensive to take more than small, gradual steps to reduce emissions at present, there is now extensive economic analysis that challenges and refutes the go-slow theory.

The articles collected on this website demonstrate that there is rigorous economic support for immediate, large-scale policy responses. The economics literature justifies immediate action to minimize the risks of climate change. "

Thriving Norway Provides an Economics Lesson
By LANDON THOMAS Jr.
Published: May 13, 2009