Stephen Leahy, International Environmental Journalist

Discovering Global Environmental Interconnections

Archive for January 15th, 2008

America’s Biofuel Gladiators

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Turning food into biofuel pits the car owners of the world against the two billion poor who struggle to get enough to eat says Lester Brown of the World Policy Institute.

Who do you think is going to win?

“This will be seen as one of the great tragedies in history,” says Brown.

See previously published articles on biofuels/energy:
Ethanol: The Great Big Green Fraud – Government subsidies amount to $15 billion in 2007

Greenest Ethanol Still Unproven - Cellulosic ethanol is long way off and may not be a solution

Biofuels and Carbon Credits Behind Global Deforestation

ENERGY REVOLUTION NEEDED NOW – Efficiency improvement is fastest, cheapest and easiest

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15/01/2008 at 5:19 pm

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