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...Face it: there's no one fuel panacea, and in the final analysis, humans will have to scale back their numbers in order to live within a finite fossil- (or even renewable-) fuel world. And good luck with that. William L. Seavey, Cambria, California...
...global warming are not supported by scientific facts or reliable statistics. Second, the growth rate of Brazilian emissions has been on the decline primarily because of decreasing rates of Amazon rain-forest deforestation, which is the main source of carbon emissions in Brazil, and increasing use of ethanol fuel. Furthermore, from 1970 to 2005 the use of ethanol in our energy mix has averted the emission of 644 million tons of CO2, the equivalent of Canada's annual emissions. When compared with the unsustainable energy patterns used in major developed countries, the Brazilian experience can be considered a model. Contrary...
...makes the most sense by far.” A REP publicity e-mail argued that it’s necessary to question whether commercially distributed water tastes better, because bottled water “costs roughly 4,000 times more, requiring 1.5 million barrels of oil, enough to fuel 100,000 cars for a year.” The water taste test was part of “Love Your Earth Week,” an entire week of campus-wide green activities. Last night, the Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) served a “breakfast for dinner?...
...stopgap measure against extreme hunger also finds itself short of food. The WFP, the U.N.'s food-aid agency, headquartered in Rome, had budgeted $2.9 billion this year to buy food and distribute it to more than 70 million people worldwide. By late March, however, high food and fuel prices meant that those same planned operations were expected to cost an extra $500 million. Just one month later, says WFP executive director Josette Sheeran, the funding gap has now widened to $755 million. And that's before factoring in new programs that the WFP would like to launch, boosting...
...crunch? Prices for rice, wheat, corn and soybeans have soared in the last ten 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...