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...Searchinger et al) on which TIME relies has been thoroughly rebutted by leading scientists at the Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. TIME owes its readers the totality of facts to avoid misinformation. For many decades, the U.S. has worked with farmers and the scientific community to increase crop yields, reduce the intensity of pesticide and fertilizer use, improve water productivity and promote conservation tillage that reduces erosion and sequesters carbon. Substantial progress continues in all these areas and was not sufficiently addressed. Last year alone our agencies invested more than $1 billion in research, development and demonstration...
...from a practical and environmental perspective, this source of ethanol looks more like a joker. For one, its meteoric rise in the United States (where ethanol production has quintupled over the last decade) and around the world has diverted a large portion of an important food crop at a time when demand for food is soaring. This notable hurdle has everything to do with the decision to rely on corn supply: While the production of most biofuels requires land that would otherwise be used for crops, one acre of corn produces 328 gallons of ethanol, compared to 662 gallons...
...months as rising oil prices drove up food production costs: from the fuel to power farm machinery, to the hydrocarbon-based fertilizers, to the gasoline needed to transport food to stores. At the same time, demand for grains has grown as developed countries produce more biofuels from food-crop feedstocks, and as people in China and India take advantage of their rapid income growth and start eating more meat (which requires more grain to feed more animals). Add to that a few short-term weather shocks, like drought in Australia, and emergency stores get depleted leaving prices to skyrocket. Fearful...
After meeting stringent admissions standards, the lucky crop of admits faces a difficult choice—studying in Baker Library next year or spending time in other fields before coming to Cambridge...
...when you went to the beach and caught up on your reading. Now if you don’t have a job lined up, you feel like a malingerer. Yet this is only the logical outcome of decades of upbringing. Ours is the overbooked generation, a bumper crop of overachievers who spent their childhoods dashing from Gifted and Talented classes to volleyball practice to tutoring sessions for underserved suburban youth. Our summers before college were spent at chess camps, on traveling soccer teams, or managing our eight lemonade franchises. We couldn’t even go camping for eight weeks...