Burning the Planet to Fill Your Fuel Tank

Cellulosic ethanol another chimerical climate “solution” that furthers biological homogenization and ecological collapse

Humanity’s epitaph may well read “Much Potential, but Cut and Burnt Themselves to Death”. Nearly every environmental crisis can be traced to burning hydrocarbons for energy, and cutting and clearing vegetation for a variety of reasons. Sadly, even as climate change awareness has grown, an understanding of root causes of environmental crises such as over-consumption remains dreadfully lacking. So now, at this late date in the Earth’s decline, it is proposed to cut and burn cellulosic ethanol biofuel produced from biomass including forest and agricultural “waste”.

Vain attempts to fuel gluttonous, over-populated humanity — that is well past the Earth’s carrying capacity already — from biomass may well be the final step in the destruction of Gaia’s biosphere and our human habitat.

Everyone is green since the Goracle has spoken. But the fact that half-baked half-measures to try to maintain gluttonous western lifestyles remains the focus means really no one (or very few) truly approach individual ecological sustainability. Our techno-capitalist ideological faith assures us that climate change, forest loss, water scarcity and ocean decline all have technological fixes. We see capitalism’s “more is good” ecocidal policy in chimerical promises of untested “clean coal”; the myth that “healthy forests” requires industrial management, and false claims that ancient forests should and can be “certifiably sustainably” logged.

Earth Meanders