Europe attacks the rainforest


All in the name of reducing greenhouse gases
Another of those unintended consequences that you probably won't hear that much about until it's too late. Emphasis added.

Europe's dash for biofuels could accelerate the destruction of tropical rainforests, the European Commission admitted on Thursday.

The EU's executive arm said that the 27-member bloc's decision to increase tenfold its consumption of vehicle fuel made from crops by 2020 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions would increase the pressure on virgin land, especially in Asia.

Add this to the higher price for Mexican corn driven by the American government demand for ethanol (read: corn subsidies) in defiance of the market, and you begin to see why government imposed "market solutions" very seldom work.

For someone who is trying to "save the planet," the actions taken by the governments of the developed nations sure are imposing a heavy burden on the less developed ones.

Gee, do you think this could be a repeating pattern?

— NeoWayland

Posted: Tue - May 1, 2007 at 12:57 PM  Tag


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