Friday, May 2, 2008

The Untold Story of BioFuel (At Least in the US)

This is a story that keeps coming up in the International Community, but is rarely talked about here in the US. Indigenous people and some species are losing their land at an alarming rate, and no one seems to care.
Survival’s director, Stephen Corry, said today, ‘The biofuels boom doesn’t just have consequences for the environment, global food prices or orang-utans – it’s having a devastating effect on tribal people too. The companies feverishly promoting this industry have been perfectly willing to push aside tribal people in their hunger for land.
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