this Guardian piece by George Monbiot<\/a> (via the Forest Conservation Portal via Glen Barry’s Earth Blog), our current focus on biofuels as an immediate means of slowing carbon emissions could present a “humanitarian and environmental disaster.” Monbiot makes some strong arguments, and given our association of agriculture with monoculture\/”corporate farming,” he could well be right. I have to wonder, though, if done on a smaller, more local scale, and not as a permanent solution, if biofuels couldn’t be the stop-gap we need as we move towards more renewable and less harmful, even non-harmful, forms of energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fuel for Nought According to this Guardian piece by George Monbiot (via the Forest Conservation Portal via Glen Barry’s Earth Blog), our current focus on biofuels as an immediate means [ … ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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