Farmers May Gain Amid Drought With U.S.-Backed Insurance - Bloomberg

Farmers “are laughing all the way to the bank,” Bruce Babcock, an Iowa State University economist and critic of the insurance program, said at a presentation in Washington July 19.

Carbon Rush makes a game of global tragedy

The message, hammered home with video snippets of comment from real people throughout the game play, is that ordinary citizens have become the casualties in the world’s carbon offset market.