Egypt rations food by selling a quota of bread at a fixed price. Some Indian cities ration water by making it available only during certain periods of the day. But there are other ways of rationing that are practiced in different parts of the world. In the 1970s, petrol was rationed by queue-ing. What we are used to in the West is rationing by ability-to-pay, through the market. Why? Because there is actually no such thing as no rationing. Are we capable of reducing our use of energy, water, soil, and nature's production (in the form of plants and animals) voluntarily, instead of through calamity and collapse? Because if we are, Cox argues, then rationing is going to have to be a part of the solution. In this book, Stan Cox modestly takes on one of the most important questions facing civilization. He contributed a chapter (and photos of his front yard) to Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Yard (Metropolis Books, 20) They have also been published by the journal Capitalism Nature Socialism, the Green journal Synthesis/Regeneration, the Indian national publications The Hindu and The Week, and the expatriate monthly Inside Mexico. Many of those articles have been reprinted by papers such as the Chicago Sun-Times, the Hartford Courant, Los Angeles Alternative, Fort Worth Weekly, Illinois Times, Albany, NY Metroland, and other papers. Since 2003, he has written regularly for and. In addition, they have been in scores of smaller papers in 26 states. His op-ed columns have appeared in the Denver Post, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Kansas City Star, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, San Jose Mercury-News, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Hartford Courant, Providence Journal, Wilmington News Journal, Burlington Free Press, and the Progressive Populist. Stan Cox is author of Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World (The New Press, 2010) and Sick Planet (Pluto Press, 2008).
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