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Why Biofuels Are the Rainforest's Worst Enemy
- krakensden 18y agoTheir enemy isn't biofuels, it's cash crops. If it wasn't palm trees for fuel, it'd be sugarcane or tobacco or something else. Of course, that doesn't have the same shock factor, that sensation of calling out the sacred cow. Hopefully in ten years or so there will be more people, especially in the professional media calling out trolls. I think it would be good to do more public analysis of news stories, where they come from, why they look the way they do. (Slate.com does that on a semi-regular basis, which I enjoy)
- jacoblyles 18y agoImmense subsidies for biofuels have probably put marginal land into cultivation that otherwise would not be.
- anamax 18y agoWhere? The US penalizes imported methanol. It subsidizes domestic corn.