Website review: Conservation Magazine - An Agricult...
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Ausearth discovered 3 months ago- Geoge Monbiot is allways worth reading
- kh7 rated 3 months ago
- From the page: "It doesnâ€t get madder than this. Swaziland is in the grip of a famine and receiving emergency food aid. Forty percent of its people are facing acute food shortages. So what has the government decided to export? Biofuel made from one of its staple crops, cassava. (1) The government has allocated several thousand hectares of farmland to ethanol production in the county of Lavumisa, which happens to be the place worst hit by drought. This is one of many examples of a trade described last October by Jean Ziegler, the United Nations†Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, as â€oea crime against humanity.” Ziegler calls for a five-year moratorium on all government targets and incentives for biofuel: the trade should be frozen until second-generation fuelsâ€"made from wood or straw or wasteâ€"become commercially available. Otherwise the superior purchasing power of drivers in the rich world means that they will snatch food from peopleâ€s mouths. Run your car on virgin biofuel and other people will starve."
- LuigiM rated 3 months ago
- "It doesn't get madder than this" is not a good start to an article, but Mr. Monbiot makes good points here. Apparently, they're using crops from 3rd world countries to make biofuels while the people of said nations starve due to increasing crop prices. Like you've never heard that before. Why don't they use solar power to generate more power and bring more oil out of the power plants so more people can use it in their cars, or maybe even put solar cells onto electric vehicles? Apparently, because somebody rich has to benefit from everything.
- msiegel rated 3 months ago
- good point about large- vs small-scale biofuel production
- bear4luvn rated 3 months ago
- From the page: "It doesn't get madder than this. Swaziland is in the grip of a famine and receiving emergency food aid. Forty percent of its people are facing acute food shortages. So what has the government decided to export? Biofuel made from one of its staple crops, cassava. (1) The government has allocated several thousand hectares of farmland to ethanol production in the county of Lavumisa, which happens to be the place worst hit by drought. "
- javamanjoe rated 3 months ago
- AGRICULTURAL CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY. By George Monbiot January-March 2008 (Vol. 9, No. 1) It doesn't get madder than this. Swaziland is in the grip of a famine and receiving emergency food aid. Forty percent of its people are facing acute food shortages. So what has the government decided to export? Biofuel made from one of its staple crops, cassava. (1) The government has allocated several thousand hectares of farmland to ethanol production in the county of Lavumisa, which happens to be the place worst hit by drought.
- bristol3 rated 3 months ago
- It doesn't get madder than this. Swaziland is in the grip of a famine and receiving emergency food aid. Forty percent of its people are facing acute food shortages. So what has the government decided to export? Biofuel made from one of its staple crops, cassava. (1) The government has allocated several thousand hectares of farmland to ethanol production in the county of Lavumisa, which happens to be the place worst hit by drought. Me . . . beating my head against a brick wall.
