Biofuel folly...
We need to seriously re-evaluate our rush to use biofuels...
The biofuels bonanza will crash unless producers can guarantee their crops have been produced responsibly, the UN's environment agency chief has said.
Achim Steiner of the UN Environment Programme (Unep) said there was an urgent need for standards to make sure rainforests weren't being destroyed.
Biofuel makers also had to show their products did not produce more CO2 than they negated, he told BBC News.
Critics say biofuels will lead to food shortages and destroy rainforests.
They point to the destruction of Indonesia's peat swamps as an example of biofuel folly.
The swamps are one the richest stores of carbon on the planet and they are being burned to produce palm oil.
Mr Steiner implied that because of Indonesia's inability to police its land use, biofuels from palm oil grown by the nation might never be deemed to be sustainable.
posted by GayandRight @ 9:39 AM
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Obviously a worldwide regulatory regime with the power to control energy markets, governments, oil companies and individual farmers is urgently required.
The United Nations is the obvious choice to establish this regulatory regime and all good and progressive people should immediately start funding it with 10% of their income since establishing a 'worldwide tax' to fund it will take too long.
Better still we could let the hugh multi-national oil companies continue to rape us unabated.
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