These sorts of stories highlight the impossibility of trying to maintain
current Western lifestyles through 'renewable' energy sources. The only
answer is a reduction of energy used, which would spell the end of the
current economic ideology.
Boo hoo.
Chris
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> Subject: [GP-Climate] Biofuels & forest
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> http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18825265.400 22 November 2005
> Forests paying the price for biofuels
> THE drive for "green energy" in the developed world is having the perverse
> effect of encouraging the destruction of tropical rainforests. From the
> orang-utan reserves of Borneo to the Brazilian Amazon, virgin forest is
> being razed to grow palm oil and soybeans to fuel cars and power stations
> in Europe and North America. And surging prices are likely to accelerate
> the destruction
> The rush to make energy from vegetable oils is being driven in part by
> European Union laws requiring conventional fuels to be blended with
> biofuels, and by subsidies equivalent to 20 pence a litre. Last week, the
> British government announced a target for biofuels to make up 5 per cent
> of transport fuels by 2010. The aim is to help meet Kyoto protocol targets
> for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions....
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