Zell, Chris wrote:
As for Brazil and the rest - so now ethanol is a human rights issue? You're getting desperate.
Not me; the peasants and children of Brazil are desperate. This has been a human rights issue from the beginning. See:
http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_food.html (I pointed this out previously in Vortex. Please review the archives.)
slave labor ( which usually isn't very productive, anyway).
That is true, but it does not matter how productive it is. The people doing this don't give a fig many people they kill in unsafe fieldwork and factories, or starve to death after their cropland is stolen. They want cheap fuel for their Mercedes-Benz cars, and if they could make it from the blood of peasant children, they would. If you doubt that, consider the fact that Americans are perfectly happy to pay billions of dollars for oil to countries like Saudi Arabia, that send hundreds of millions to Al Qaeda and other terrorists. Our gasoline money is being used to slaughter our young men and women in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, both of which we are losing. Given what we are doing, why do you suppose rich people in Brazil would have any qualms about slaughtering peasants for fuel?
- Jed
