Soaring crop prices and demand for biofuels raise fears of political instability. In a new report, the UK charity appears to be joining a growing number of concerned people talking about the side-effects of the drive to get fuel from plants.
The European Union wants to cut the CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels and is planning 10% of all transport fuels should come from plants by 2020. But Oxfam warns poor farmers risk being forced off their land as industrial farmers cash in on the biofuel bonanza. To make it worse, he added, valuable rainforest is still being cleared to make way for fuel crops like palm oil. Read the rest of this scary article here.
See this Youtube video also on the impact on Orangutans. How can we live with ourselves as a species if we do such a thing as this?
Read also the Guardian article here on the political impact of biofuels and how food riots may be on the cards as a result of this.
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