The idea of turning food into fuel to feed our SUVs while hundreds of millions around the world of people go hungry or even starve is utterly obscene.
"Biofuels" is the clever name for this ethical and ecological disaster which is treated as the answer to the rising costs and increasing scarcity of oil by cynical politicians and the their lackeys in the corporate media.
There is one sane voice speaking out, though your chances of hearing about it in the mainstream media are about as likely as Bush really embracing the teachings of Christ.
A UN official, Jean Ziegler, said yesterday that diverting sugar and maize for biofuels could lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths from hunger worldwide. He cited a couple of examples of the growing problem — more and more sugar cane plantations in Brazil are being used for biofuels, leaving less land for subsistence farmers, and in Mexico, the price of maize is climbing because of rising demand for use in biofuels. The examples he cited were just the tip of the iceberg.
The whole idea is a dangerous joke that diverts attention from the ecological and humanitarian horror that awaits us.
Posted by Deck at June 16, 2007 06:18 AM