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people already do that. it's called "logging" or "slash-and-burn"
by ruined 4y ago
people already do that. it's called "logging" or "slash-and-burn"
- pfdietz 4y agoAnd now it will be feeding something that's replaced the oil industry.
- ruined 4y agoyes. it's well-known that policy-based demand for biofuels is accelerating deforestation in Brazil, for example https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00005-8 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00005-8
- shkkmo 4y agoYes, to make space to grow crops to make biofuel. Not because the forest is being "mined" for it's carbon to make biofuel out. As the article points out, growing crops to make biofuel is very space intensive.