To me it seems it's all been muddled in true aid-inudstrial complex style, where it's about being "nice" without thinking of the consequences. And indeed, the PR trick works, with the media catching on the "evil big corporation angle" so popular amoing fasionable leftists who have no idea what the role of corporations actually are, only that they are evil. Then they head out shopping "chic" goods from those very same corporations. Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
That should be the overall strategy - but, in the case of a famine like the Horn of Africa, buying up large stocks on the world market may be necessary to ensure survival rations for large numbers of people at a moment of crisis.
