Ethanol not a real solution
When no one was looking, the “world food crisis” elbowed out “global climate change” as our planet’s Numero Uno calamity.
As if that weren’t bad enough, we now discover that the two are connected; with this attempt to fix the climate by shifting away from fossil fuels to more “eco-friendly” renewable fuels, we have ended up starving people in Africa and Asia.
Seems like we can hardly settle on one cataclysm before another one demands our attention.
Food riots have broken out around the world; grain-producing countries have banned exports to feed their own people; food prices in the U.S. and around the world have gone through the roof. The UN—its usual bold self—created a task force to study the matter.
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