Starving The Poor
By Noam Chomsky
Increasingly,
bio fuels are likely to "starve the poor" around the world, according
to Runge and Senauer, as staples are converted to ethanol production
for the privileged - cassava in sub-Saharan Africa, to take one ominous
example. Meanwhile, in Southeast Asia, tropical forests are cleared and
burned for oil palms destined for bio fuel, and there are threatening
environmental effects from input-rich production of corn-based ethanol
in the United States as well.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17722.htm
bio fuels are likely to "starve the poor" around the world, according
to Runge and Senauer, as staples are converted to ethanol production
for the privileged - cassava in sub-Saharan Africa, to take one ominous
example. Meanwhile, in Southeast Asia, tropical forests are cleared and
burned for oil palms destined for bio fuel, and there are threatening
environmental effects from input-rich production of corn-based ethanol
in the United States as well.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17722.htm
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