BIOFUELS: Driving a Catastrophe

The target-driven global market for biofuels is causing unprecedented destruction of many of the most biodiverse ecosystems on earth including Indonesia's ancient tropical peat forests. In an interview with Sky News Deepak Rughani from Biofuelwatch calls for a moratoriium on large-scale biofuel monocultures and warns of collapse of ecosystems critical to climate stabilisation.

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[Janette7andlove]

How sad that we are killing nature, the landscape is dying in front of our eyes. . . SHAME.

[recycledt]

finally, someone with the brains to break it down by numbers and the guts to expose the greenwash that is biofuels. Take a look at Indonesia's brown fields which are being clear cut to meet the EU;s biofuel target for 2020...make the connection!

[donsjuand]

This report is rife with omissions. Who decides what content is shown on the air at this station?

[areyoufreakenserious]

there is so much more to biofuels. not just the clearing of rainforests. there are other ways of producing biofuels without this nonsense!

[mikehanoo33]

The real ecological nightmare is industrial agriculture. Switching to organic-style crop rotation will cut energy use on farms by a third or more: no more petroleum-based herbicides, pesticides, or chemical fertilizers. Fertilizer needs can be served either by applying the byproducts left over from the alcohol manufacturing process directly to the soil, or by first running the byproducts through animals as feed.

[emforty2]

the culprit here is the use of car. there are 1.5 billion chinese and indians that will be on the road soon with their brand new cars fighting for every drop of fuel whatever that is biofuel or not

no wonder 7 out of the 10 largest corporations are petroleum/biofuel companies

[DudasMiska]

Yea this is where the fucking Amerikans should be fighting a war, not in the middle east for cheap oil and where they cant win anyway.

[spark300c]

would be better if they do not plant plam oil trees and just harvests the wood and then plant new trees and other plants that animals need. if you harvest one acre day and you own about 5000 acres then will take 13.7 years to complete cycle which enough time for the first harvest acre to grow back. it be less impact than plam oil plantations.

[Ragnarokgn]

Biofuels == the stupidest idea ever. Stop it now!

[ka288]

how can i download it?