"In promoting biodiesel ? as the European Union, the British and US governments and thousands of environmental campaigners do ? you might imagine that you are creating a market for old chip fat, or rapeseed oil, or oil from algae grown in desert ponds. In reality you are creating a market for the most destructive crop on earth:... oil from palm trees."
Thought provoking article that needs to be read. Shows how the mechanisms that we use can be subverted by unintended consequences.
George Monbiot ? Worse Than Fossil Fuel:
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