Over 200 environmental and humanitarium organizations worldwide have joined together to call for an immediate halt to the use of large scale biofuels. This unanimity reflects the public's growing concern that biofuels are causing significantly more harm than good - through the destruction of ecosystems and through human rights breaches. Even now, agrofuel speculators are buying up huge plots of arable land and booting out the people who live there. If biofuels gain large scale support, food prices will be driven up (shortly followed by an increase in the prices of everything else), and the concept of biofuels dangerously ties together the food and oil markets.
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Greens call for an end to Biofuels
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Environmentalists Unite Against BioFuels
Posted by Andrew Heine - 12:01 PM
Subjects: energy, environment
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