Picture (above) borrowed from The Telegraph's article on a surge in Brazilian deforestation in 2007.
George Monbiot, environmental guru and columnist at The Guardian, offers perhaps the most succinct argument against biofuels (in any form) that I have read. I highly recommend that anyone interested in the subject go and read his 12 February article: HERE.
He also has more recently written an excellent piece on the horrifying thought process (or lack thereof) behind the planning of Britain's first coal-fired power plant in 20 years: HERE. If you're too busy/lazy to go and read his article, I will help you out... THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS CLEAN COAL. Any fruit from this tree will fall far to late to be of use in averting the worst effects of global climate change. We need to focus on electrics and renewable power.
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