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The trouble is that it is the ending of the current economic ideology that puts people off voting Green. I was speaking to a fellow student from the UEA People and Planet branch earlier this week and she would not vote Green if she thought we would be likely to form a national government because she thought Greens could not run the economy. I don't know what to do about this Chris Keene Chris wrote: > 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 > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Keene" > <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 10:39 AM > Subject: [Fwd: [GP-Climate] Biofuels & forest] > > >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: [GP-Climate] Biofuels & forest >> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:09:37 +0000 >> From: [log in to unmask] >> Reply-To: [log in to unmask] >> To: [log in to unmask] >> >> >> >> 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.... >> >> --- >> Lera Miles >> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/lera.m/ >> >> >> >> ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor >> --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! >> Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page >> http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/FdSolB/TM >> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> >> >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GP-Climate/ >> >> <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: >> [log in to unmask] >> >> <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: >> http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ >> >