<i>The danger is not that the Chinese might actually starve to death in the near future, any more than Germans would have during the 1930s. The risk is that a developed country able to project military power could, like Hitler’s Germany, fall into ecological panic, and take drastic steps to protect its existing standard of living.</i><p>Silly, obvious military-industrial-complex-sponsored scaremongering is silly and obvious.
Heh, one need only exchange the words "lebensraum" with "manifest destiny" to see that the origins and history of the United States are quite compatible with genocide if it furthers our economic goals.