How Many Lives Will You Sacrifice For Your SUV?
I had so many different titles for this article but none were sufficient to capture its importance
A new analysis of UN statistics shows clearly that alternative fuel (biofuel) policies of the USA and the EU are going to result directly and indirectly to the premature and unnecessary deaths of millions upon millions of people, with around ten to twenty million dieing in 2008 alone. Only a post-disaster assessment by future scientific studies and historians can give a more exact figure for the body count of The Great Biofuel Famine, which may continue for many years to come. This is urgent, folks, and largely under the radar!
When humans don't get enough food to eat over a prolonged period of time, their immune systems get stressed and weakened, and they become vulnerable to common illnesses which the well fed can easily fight off. That is the main, indirect way that a lack of sufficient food kills people, but many will die of direct, emaciating starvation as well.
The USDA states that by the end of May, US wheat supplies will be lower than at any time since 1948 because so many wheat farmers switched to growing corn for biofuel. And the pendulum does not swing back in this case. US farmers ARE planting more wheat this year but because of the demand for corn for food and energy this will result in dramatic increases in food prices across the globe next year.
Biofuels are touted as the solution to global warming. Global warming may or may not be true. But biofuels are a disaster that can only lead to more death and destruction of people, property and the atmosphere no matter what biofuel crops we grow. In 2006 corn was on the market at only $2/bushel, but expanding ethanol production has pushed corn prices up to over $6 a bushel today which raises the price of chicken, eggs, beef, and dairy products, as corn is our main animal feed. In the year 2007, the USA alone turned enough corn, soybeans, and rapeseed into biofuels to satisfy the yearly caloric needs of over 250 million people. According to the World Bank the price of staple foods has soared an astonishing and highly alarming 80% in the last three years since 2005 and there is already a threat of political instability in thirty three countries as a result of this unprecedented change. In even some wealthier countries like Italy there have been food riots. And in countries such as Haiti people have taken to eating ?cookies? made from mud The food riots in Haiti have looked more like revolution than just demand for food.
Biofuel is a bad idea that sounds like a good idea and there is no way to make it match up with the realities of the real world so it becomes something positive for either the environment or the economy. Many independent studies from agencies, universities, etc show that ethanol from cellulose (switchgrass, wood chips, crops waste, etc.) will never be cost effective. Some companies, including major oil corporations, have sought to extract biodiesel from algae but they have been trying unsuccessfully with a great waster of money and time and effort for over thirty years now. In addition to the effects on the world food supply, using corn as a source for ethanol takes so much use of other energy sources that it is not even 1/5th as efficient as fossil fuel and instead it is a killer of people and a hazard to the environment.
Scores of scientific studies from respected authorities have demonstrated that results from biofuel generation include torture of wildlife, destruction of the biosphere and faster global warming.
The evidence is so overwhelmingly and severely against biofuel and its horrendous ramifications that no person of good will would ever support it.
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