As the west continues its love of the internal combustion engine and its new found vigour for increased need for bio-fuels, yet more of the worlds rain forests are disappearing under the headlong dash to clear them for growing the West’s newest liquid-gold!
As can be seen in this amazing image from last weeks Time Magazine, what was once virgin Rain Forest is now reduced to acre upon acre of soybean plants used to make Bio-Fuels.
This is just one picture from one area of Brazil and what is staggering is that instead of the soybeans going to help the worlds hungry, it will actually add to their misery as more food is is used to fuel our cars than our fellow human beings!
The continuing chain reaction of farmers switching from Soybean to Corn (it gets a higher price) for Bio-Fuel increases the sowing of yet more Soybean which means that more forests are cut down to meet demand etc. etc. All the time as this goes on, less food is being made available to go into the human food chain and prices continue to rise.
What is the answer? I’m not sure, but something has to be done and very soon, perhaps we all have to give up our second cars as a start! This fuel and food crisis is only going to get worse!
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