BIOFUELS: Driving a Catastrophe

by admin on May 30, 2010


The target-driven global market for biofuels is causing unprecedented destruction of many of the most biodiverse ecosystems on earth including Indonesia’s ancient tropical peat forests. In an interview with Sky News Deepak Rughani from Biofuelwatch calls for a moratoriium on large-scale biofuel monocultures and warns of collapse of ecosystems critical to climate stabilisation.

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mikehanoo33 May 30, 2010 at 9:49 am

The real ecological nightmare is industrial agriculture. Switching to organic-style crop rotation will cut energy use on farms by a third or more: no more petroleum-based herbicides, pesticides, or chemical fertilizers. Fertilizer needs can be served either by applying the byproducts left over from the alcohol manufacturing process directly to the soil, or by first running the byproducts through animals as feed.

emforty2 May 30, 2010 at 10:08 am

the culprit here is the use of car. there are 1.5 billion chinese and indians that will be on the road soon with their brand new cars fighting for every drop of fuel whatever that is biofuel or not

no wonder 7 out of the 10 largest corporations are petroleum/biofuel companies

DudasMiska May 30, 2010 at 10:16 am

Yea this is where the fucking Amerikans should be fighting a war, not in the middle east for cheap oil and where they cant win anyway.

spark300c May 30, 2010 at 11:13 am

would be better if they do not plant plam oil trees and just harvests the wood and then plant new trees and other plants that animals need. if you harvest one acre day and you own about 5000 acres then will take 13.7 years to complete cycle which enough time for the first harvest acre to grow back. it be less impact than plam oil plantations.

Ragnarokgn May 30, 2010 at 11:33 am

Biofuels == the stupidest idea ever. Stop it now!

ka288 May 30, 2010 at 12:07 pm

how can i download it?

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