Biofuels Coming With a High Environmental Price? 541
DurandalTree writes "With the spectre of global warming on the horizon, biofuels have been touted as the solution to motor vehicles' greenhouse gas emissions. But with biodiesel use on the increase, it appears a distinctively environmentally unfriendly footprint is being left behind by some of its prime sources; affected food prices are surging out of reach of the poor and rainforests are being destroyed to create larger plantations."
Re:Happened in the past with renewables (Score:1, Funny)
Re:People don't really care (Score:3, Funny)
Re:People don't really care (Score:1, Funny)
The simple answer is to reduce the number of people, but they don't want to stop having sex.
Soylent Green (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Happened in the past with renewables (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Happened in the past with renewables (Score:2, Funny)
Imagine the convenience of replacing automatic transmissions with automatic rigging managers to hoist the proper sails and set them for efficient travel. This will create jobs somehow. Great!
We'll need to do something with the Rockies and other mountain ranges. Large windmills at the top can drive pull-chains to which landsailors can attach their sailcars for an assisted portage.
Cities draped over God's Hills will use huge solar collectors to power their pull-chains.
Eventually, we will replace the metal and fiberglass and oil-derived platics in cars with natural alternatives made from hemp. Fiberweed is the future! Hemp rope will replace the evil refined metals in the pull chains.
And the hemp tops will help us forget what civilization was like.