Comments on: Biofuels Are Behind the Food Crisis—Unless They Aren’t http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/realitybase/2008/07/09/biofuels-are-behind-the-food-crisis%e2%80%94unless-they-arent/ A blog about science, politics, and how to let each help the other without compromising them both. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:36:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Weekly Science & Politics News Roundup | Reality Base | Discover Magazine http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/realitybase/2008/07/09/biofuels-are-behind-the-food-crisis%e2%80%94unless-they-arent/#comment-583 Weekly Science & Politics News Roundup | Reality Base | Discover Magazine Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:32:23 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/realitybase/2008/07/09/biofuels-are-behind-the-food-crisis%e2%80%94unless-they-arent/#comment-583 [...] The ethanol/corn prices debate continues, with the EPA denying Texas governor Rick Perry’s request to temporarily [...] […] The ethanol/corn prices debate continues, with the EPA denying Texas governor Rick Perry’s request to temporarily […]

]]> By: The Answer to Oil Prices? XXXTreme Energy! | Discoblog | Discover Magazine http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/realitybase/2008/07/09/biofuels-are-behind-the-food-crisis%e2%80%94unless-they-arent/#comment-43 The Answer to Oil Prices? XXXTreme Energy! | Discoblog | Discover Magazine Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:39:54 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/realitybase/2008/07/09/biofuels-are-behind-the-food-crisis%e2%80%94unless-they-arent/#comment-43 [...] in reducing emissions by 50 percent by 2050. Biofuels seem like a solution, but demand for them has cut into our food supply. Billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens is now chasing the wind turbine. But some scientists are going [...] […] in reducing emissions by 50 percent by 2050. Biofuels seem like a solution, but demand for them has cut into our food supply. Billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens is now chasing the wind turbine. But some scientists are going […]

]]> By: JimBobby http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/realitybase/2008/07/09/biofuels-are-behind-the-food-crisis%e2%80%94unless-they-arent/#comment-42 JimBobby Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:17:19 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/realitybase/2008/07/09/biofuels-are-behind-the-food-crisis%e2%80%94unless-they-arent/#comment-42 <i>Whether ethanol is really doing more good than harm, in both the overall environmental picture and the fight against climate change.</i> Just "the overall environmental picture and the fight against climate change."? What about the big question regarding the part it plays in the food crisis that is killing 24,000 human beings every single day and that threatens 100's of millions of lives? Even if crop-based ethanol is only responsible for 3% of the starvation, that's still hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths and unacceptable suffering. The food crisis threatens global security, as well. Are we willing to risk destabilizing third world governments so drivers can fuel their gas guzzlers? JB Whether ethanol is really doing more good than harm, in both the overall environmental picture and the fight against climate change.

Just “the overall environmental picture and the fight against climate change.”? What about the big question regarding the part it plays in the food crisis that is killing 24,000 human beings every single day and that threatens 100’s of millions of lives? Even if crop-based ethanol is only responsible for 3% of the starvation, that’s still hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths and unacceptable suffering.

The food crisis threatens global security, as well. Are we willing to risk destabilizing third world governments so drivers can fuel their gas guzzlers?

JB

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