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CLIMATE/FOREST ALERT: Call on U.S. Government to Halt Ecologically Misguided

Support for Large Scale Biofuel

 

 

ACTION ALERT PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!

 

Call on U.S. Government to Halt Ecologically Misguided

Support for Large Scale Biofuel

 

By Rainforest Rescue (Rettet den Regenwald)

http://www.regenwald.org/international/englisch/index.php

In partnership with Ecological Internet's Climate Ark

http://www.climateark.org/

March 23, 2009

 

TAKE ACTION HERE NOW:

http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=corn_biofuel

 

Fuel from food and already overstressed terrestrial

ecosystems is immoral and unsustainable. The Obama

administration must start by rejecting the proposal to

increase the corn ethanol fuel blend limit from 10-15%.

 

BRIEF BACKGROUND:

 

Please support US environmental and social justice groups

calling upon the new Obama administration to halt financial

and policy support for large scale biofuel production. In

particular, the Obama government's potential support for

agrofuel expansion -- making of transportation fuels from

food -- runs counter to their aim to urgently address

climate change and threatens to cause more hunger, human

rights abuses, and degradation of soil and water.

 

The Obama administration promised to reduce greenhouse gas

emissions and to boost renewable energy. Unfortunately, a

large part of their solution involves further boosting

agrofuel production, both in the US and abroad. The new

administration must heed the overwhelming evidence that

agrofuels worsen climate change through further

deforestation and the destruction of other ecosystems; drive

food prices up, forcing more and more people worldwide into

hunger and malnutrition; and decimate biodiversity and

ecosystems.

 

Rainforest Rescue and Ecological Internet are concerned with

America's growing ethanol industry, and the implications it

has in setting a precedent for massive agricultural

industrialisation of the world's remaining rainforests and

other natural wildlands. We concur with the growing

ecological consensus that large-scale industrial production

of transport fuels and other energy from plants such as

corn, sugar cane, oil palm, soya, trees, grasses, or so-

called agricultural and woodland waste threatens forests,

biodiversity, food sovereignty, community-based land rights

and will worsen climate change.

 

TAKE ACTION NOW:

http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=corn_biofuel

 

DISCUSS THIS ALERT:

http://www.climateark.org/blog/2009/03/alert-call-on-us-government-to.asp