What biofuels do is undeniable: they take food out of the mouths of starving people and divert them to be burned as fuel in the car engines of the world's rich consumers. This is, in the words of the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food, Jean Ziegler, nothing less than a "crime against humanity".The New Statesman explains how the rich starved the world. Via Cynical-C.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Posted by Gerry Canavan at 11:40 AM
Labels: biofuels, crimes against humanity, energy, food, late capitalism, poverty
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