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Decadent world leaders pig out with eight-course dinnere before food crisis conference!

Decadent world leaders pig out with eight-course dinnere before food
crisis conference!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/2262534/G8-summit-Gord
on-Brown-has-eight-course-dinner-before-food-crisis-talks.html

G8 summit: Gordon Brown has eight-course dinner before food crisis
talks - ***Politicians who have never been hungry a day in their lives
create a world food crisis by mandating we turn mountains of food into
fuel, and none has admitted any guilt or given any apology to all the
millions of families they have starved around the world.  Shouldn't
biofuel criminals spend time in jail for their deadly policies?***
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Are good intentions a legitimate excuse for negligent homicide?

Biofuel production will significantly contribute to the early,
avoidable deaths of at minimum between 10 and 20 million people
worldwide in the year 2008 alone, a conservative estimated based on
United Nations global poverty statistics and advice by experts on
global hunger.  Privately, I fear the malnutrition body count will
climb higher, as food prices are rising quickly, and the higher they
go, the more people will die.  Global deaths due to malnutrition and
related illness in 2008 could reach as high as 20 to 30 million, but I
hope I and wrong in that dark suspicion.  Economists estimate that
over 100 million of the world's poor are in great jeopardy due to a
lack of food.  The world food crisis has other significant driving
factors, such as high oil prices, the Australian drought, and
expanding populations, but biofuel production is the only major
contributing element that is 100% under our immediate control. The
fundamental moral question is, why are our politicians making a
difficult situation dramatically worse by turning mountains of grain
into fuel at a time the whole world desperately needs more food?

To put this tragedy in historical perspective, the infamous Cambodian
dictator Pol Pot killed approximately 1.7 million people between 1975
and 1979.  Two hundred thousand were executed, but the rest mainly
died by starvation due to his idiotic agricultural policies.  Chairman
Mao Tse Tung's 1958 "Great Leap Forward" 5 year plan caused the
starvation of millions of Chinese, with mortality estimates ranging
widely from 14 million up to 40 million.  Mao tried to forcefully
shift China's agricultural based economy to greater industrial
output.  Mao had the best of intentions, just like so many of our
politicians who support forcing by government decree the massive
diversion of food to fuel.  These leaders hold firm to their almost
mystical beliefs in biofuels, even after being repeatedly warned that
this shift from agriculture to fuel production is starving people
around the world and is murder for the environment as well.

Unless the biofuel bandwagon is halted by public protest, by the year
2020 the world will be diverting 400 million tons of grain each year
into ethanol production, which is calorically equal to 100% of current
global rice production.  There have been major demonstrations and/or
food riots in 37 countries, and according to the World Bank at least
33 nations face political instability as staple food prices have risen
83% in the last 3 years.  Biofuel production is equivalent to a new
tax on food that starves the poor in order to feed money to rich
agricultural corporations.  Big business makes our biofuels, not Mom
and Pop.

The United Nations has warned that 82 countries now face food
emergencies this year as cereal stocks are at an all-time low.  German
Development Minister Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul stated that production
of biofuels is "30 to 70% responsible" for food price inflation.  Bill
Clinton stated that "What's really hurting the food markets is America
moving into ethanol."  Massachusetts Congressman Jim McGovern stated
that “If there was a secret vote (on biofuels), there is a pretty
large number of people who would like to reassess what we are doing.”
One of many ways biofuel production causes hunger is by driving up the
cost of fertilizer; up over 200% in 2007.  If something you eat
requires fertilizer to grow, biofuels have increased its cost.

Oil price increases have not shrunk the human food supply, but biofuel
production has.  The more biofuels we produce, the less food we have
to eat, because we grow biofuel crops, even switchgrass, using the
same land, water, fertilizer, farm equipment, and labor we use to grow
food.  New studies have shown that ethanol from non-food cellulose
sources, such as switchgrass, wood chips, and crop waste, etc., will
never be economically viable, so biofuels are essentially a dead-end
technology.  Biodiesel from algae will never amount to much either, as
we would need approximately 30 million acres of concrete or plastic
lined algae ponds to meet 100% of projected US automotive fuel usage
by the year 2022.  Algae schemes that use less land invariably call
for feeding algae sugar, which means growing sugarcane, corn, or sugar
beets, so you are simply trading ethanol potential to make oil instead
of vodka.

Every year the human race burns the equivalent of 400 years worth of
total planetary vegetation in the condensed form of fossil fuels, so
how are we ever going to replace all of that concentrated biomass
energy by growing a relatively small volume of biofuel crops on our
overpopulated, fresh water starved little planet?  How are the
homeless, the elderly, the disabled, veterans, and all those living on
low fixed incomes going to survive 14 more years of rapid food price
inflation caused by the Bush-Obama biofuel plan?  The justifying claim
that ethanol is a "clean fuel" is false as well.  Ethanol blended
fuels burn cleaner on a per gallon basis, but not on a miles traveled
basis, because ethanol contains 33% less energy than gasoline.
Ethanol blended fuels actually emit more CO2 per miles driven than
ordinary gasoline in addition to emitting far more CO2 during their
manufacture.  So why do so many people keep mindlessly repeating the
false claim that ethanol is "green" and "renewable."  If we
dramatically speed up global warming by producing ethanol, soon we
won't be able to "renew" much of anything.

Biofuel production causes water pollution, water shortages, erodes
topsoil, tortures wildlife, and numerous studies have proven that
biofuel farming speeds global warming by releasing massive amounts of
greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous
oxide.  Biofuels are a major contributor to global famine.  If you
kill one person with a gun you go to jail, but what about contributing
to the deaths of millions through bad policy?

For more information and better energy alternatives, see
http://home.att.net/~meditation/bio-fuel-hoax.html

Christopher Calder

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