And something about losing huge tracks of land from food production
Plans to make European motorists use more biofuels could take an area the size of Ireland out of food production by 2020 and accelerate climate change, a study has found.
The report by the independent Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) is based on plans that countries have submitted to the EU detailing how they intend to meet their legal requirement to include 10% of renewable energy in all transport fuels by 2020.
IEEP calculations suggest that the indirect effect of the switch will be to take between 4.1m and 6.9m hectares out of food production. In addition, say the authors, opening up land to compensate for the food taken out of production will lead to between 27m and 56m tonnes of additional CO² emissions, the equivalent of putting nearly 26m more cars on the road.
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Especially since so many food based biofuels are worthless in comparison to petroleum and sugar based fuels. Of course, the alarmists will ignore the whole thing. Less food means less people, which they like, and, who cares if this whole plan is bad for their insane cult? It’s intentions that count, not results.
