Biofueled Global Warming

In West Africa the biggest new cause of deforestation in many regions is to grow biofuel. The land rush to establish biofuel plantations in developing nations is one of the most intense the world has ever seen. Literally millions of square miles could be turned into biofuel plantations in the tropics, and the impact this will have on global rainfall and global temperatures is incalculable – it is surely comparable to anything caused by anthropogenic CO2.

Moreover, the rush to deforest the tropics to grow biofuel – cassava in Nigeria, sugar cane in Brazil, oil palms in Indonesia – is a form of neocolonialism that environmentalists should find horrifying. Tariff barriers are being streamlined to allow tropical developing nations to export biofuel to the industrial north, food crops are being crowded out, small farmers are unable to participate, and in 100 square mile increments, land ownership passes into the hands of energy multinationals. And weather patterns take a turn for the worse.
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