Jean Ziegler, Special Rapporteur of the Right to Food at the UN recommends a 5-year moratorium on all biofuels to allow science to progress. In 5 years, we should be able to turn agricultural waste into biofuel rather than plants nouricières itself (and the stem either ear). Hunger in the world is progressing from year to year, today, 100,000 people die of hunger or its immediate consequences every day.
There has been a shift in recent years for land Vivières agricultural production nouricière to earth producing biofuel.
For example, for 50l of corn oil to fill a tank that runs on bioethanol, there are many in Brazil, you burn 232kg of maize, ie, the amount necessary to sustain a person a year.
results in less than one year, wheat prices more than doubled the price of corn has more than quadrupled.
Of the 53 African countries, 31 do not know the food self-sufficiency, ie must buy foreign currency on the world market, corn is missing (230 000 tonnes last year for example, Burkina Faso). If the price of maize or millet, or wheat, double or quadruple, it is clear that these countries will no longer buy what they need to keep alive their people.
The land prices increase by an extravagant, because it becomes very profitable, we have seen, especially in Colombia conflict driving small farmers off their land.
WFP (World Food Programme) has now afford to buy half (only) the necessary nouriture the country who can not pay it, last year, WFP fed 91 million people. WFP now has half the funding from last year, I let you imagine the practical consequences.
It is obvious that the climate is deteriorating, it is a truism, it is obvious that the millions of cars that run on fossil fuel CO2 ejected into the atmosphere and are responsible for severe degradation of the climate, it Something must be done, obviously. There are three attitudes:
- that of the previous Bush said is the solution, save the climate and at the same time allégons our dependence on Middle East.
- The one who says Lulla I want to reduce the external debt of Brazil (which is the second largest foreign debt all third world countries) I have to export, then I export of bioethanol and at the same time I reduce my oil bill.
- That of licolino and other who say anyway bioethanol is a delusion because to produce them, we need fossil fuels and especially water in large quantities and it is not worth the time.
