On Dec 5, 11:44 am, Christopher Calder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On my webpage I have links to news stories showing rainforest
> devastation in Brail, Indonesia, and other tropical countries, all
> because of expanding production of sugarcane, palm trees for palm oil,
> and soybeans and other crops for biodiesel. Brazil still grows
> sugarcane for sugar to eat. Where do you think the new, vast amounts
> of sugarcane for ethanol production are coming from? They are coming
> from new sugarcane plantations all over Brazil.
False. All sugercane plantations are south of the Amazon Basin.
There are some in Matto Grosso (wet sevannah), most in Goais and most
receetly, some in the Northwest, from Natal south.
Palm oil in Indonesia does replace tropic rain forest; most of the oil
crop is sole as food these days and several of the biodiesel
operations are in receivership.
Do not trust news stories; use more authoritative sources.
By the way, a recent FAO report states that of the 5 billion hectares
of 'argicultural land', about 30% is 'arable land' (which I take to
mean in production) and about 20% is unused. So it appears there is
ample land, at least, for both food and biofuel.
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