Biofuels are a crime against humanity. Discuss.
What will be an ideal response?
The UN Human Rights Rapporteur, Jean Ziegler, charged in 2007 that biofuels are a “crime against humanity. This is because production decisions depend on a boardroom financial calculus, often with little concern for allocations between crops for food or fuels and/or environmental integrity. Social movements have renamed biofuels agrofuels in recognition of this tradeoff between food and fuel crops, and there have been calls for certification of biofuels to encourage protective socioecological standards. Thus Cargill, for example, in its biofuel plantations in Southeast Asia, claims to avoid disturbing peat soils (which store large amounts of carbon) and to protect biodiversity via a no-burn policy on land clearing. Such initiatives follow sustained civil society pressures on such companies with histories of deforestation in Southeast Asia, West Africa, and Brazil. Even so, a Biofuelwatch survey claims a “majority of biofuel industry responses reject any mandatory safeguards and suggest that not enough is known about lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions from biofuels, but nonetheless demand government support for rapid market expansion.
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