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Posted on 11/07/2010 4:54:10 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Biofuel worse for climate than fossil fuel - study 11:02pm GMT
By Pete Harrison
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European plans to promote biofuels will drive farmers to convert 69,000 square km of wild land into fields and plantations, depriving the poor of food and accelerating climate change, a report warned on Monday.
The impact equates to an area the size of the Republic of Ireland.
As a result, the extra biofuels that Europe will use over the next decade will generate between 81 and 167 percent more carbon dioxide than fossil fuels, says the report.
Nine environmental groups reached the conclusion after analysing official data on the European Union's goal of getting 10 percent of transport fuel from renewable sources by 2020.
But the European Commission's energy team, which originally formulated the goal, countered that the bulk of the land needed would be found by recultivating abandoned farmland in Europe and Asia, minimising the impact.
New science has emerged this year casting doubt on the sustainability of the 10 percent goal, but EU energy officials have argued that only around two thirds of that target will be met through biofuels, with the balance being vehicles powered by renewable electricity.
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wutterweegonnaDOOOO!
They knew going into the corn for fuel that it was a waste, caused food prices to rise and I haven’t had a good steak in a long time because it’s too damn expensive.
These idiots chose not to look at consequences. Claude Raines anyone?
Ethanol Fraud BTTT
Again
Doesn't that help accomplish one of the liberals' goals: reducing the human population?
‘.....I haven’t had a good steak in a long time because it’s too damn expensive.’
Try going to AL Sharpton’s house and demanding one of his steaks since he believes in “spreading the wealth” and “equal sharing”.
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That’s because it is not about the environment it is about money and power.
Just like in the US. It is ADM and others that stand to make billions selling corn and distilling Ethanol.
On the power side it is politicians selling a vote for campaign contributions and getting the green vote.
Most of the people involved in promoting green energy do not give a crap about the environment and most of them know full well that they are doing more harm than good in the long run.
of course it is...what else would the outcome be?
No, the "poor" they are talking about are the ones that productive people are expected to donate food and blankets to every few weeks.
Not at all the segment of population they'd like to see starving.
“....one of the liberals’ goals: reducing the human population?”
I think you’re right.
If you haven’t seen it, please check out The Green Agenda.
Some quotes on the first page:
“Effective execution of Agenda 21 will require a profound
reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world has ever experienced a major shift in the priorities of both governments and individuals and an unprecedented
redeployment of human and financial resources. This shift
will demand that a concern for the environmental consequences of every human action be integrated into individual and collective decision-making at every level.”
- UN Agenda 21
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“The current course of development is thus clearly unsustainable. Current problems cannot be solved by piecemeal measures. More of the same is not enough. Radical change from the current trajectory is not an option, but an absolute necessity. Fundamental economic, social and cultural changes that address the root causes of poverty and environmental degradation are required and they are required now.”
– from the Earth Charter website
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“The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society,
which is nature’s proper steward and society’s only hope.”
- David Brower,
founder of Friends of the Earth
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“If we don’t overthrow capitalism, we don’t have a chance of
saving the world ecologically. I think it is possible to have an ecologically sound society under socialism.
I don’t think it is possible under capitalism”
- Judi Bari,
principal organiser of Earth First!
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“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the
industrialized civilizations collapse?
Isn’t it our responsiblity to bring that about?”
- Maurice Strong,
founder of the UN Environment Programme
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“A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the
United States. De-development means bringing our
economic system into line with the realities of
ecology and the world resource situation.”
- Paul Ehrlich,
Professor of Population Studies
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“The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States. We can’t let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the US. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are.”
- Michael Oppenheimer,
Environmental Defense Fund
The steak is too damn high.
ping
Nice friends you have there.
But it will increase EU bureaucratic control over energy supplies. So let’s just find some scientists to debunk the report, and it’s win-win.
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