Biofuel from Corn Ethanol Is Not Renewable, Does Not Address Climate Change

Unique opportunity this week (by 24th) to setback food and ecosystem based biofuels. Please take action and forward now! And the other alerts to which you are forwarded still need sending too.

Dr. Glen Barry


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Biofuel from Corn Ethanol Is Not Renewable, Does Not Address Climate Change

By Ecological Internet's Climate Ark project with Rainforest Rescue http://www.climateark.org/ & http://www.regenwald.org/international/englisch/ April 20, 2009

Let California Air Resources Board know all industrially produced biofuel crops from live biomass, edible or not, still require land, soil, water, fertilizer and other finite inputs. It is clear that industrial biofuels are not "renewable energy" given that these inputs are all in limited supply, and indirect land uses lead to destruction of soil and forest carbon sinks elsewhere.

BRIEF BACKGROUND: Regulators at the California Air Resources Board (CARB) are poised later this week to declare that biofuel from corn ethanol cannot help the state address climate change. In assessing the true environmental cost of corn ethanol, it was found this biofuel is worse than petroleum when total greenhouse gas emissions are considered. This is because as with all monocultures, corn ethanol for biofuels lead to numerous other indirect land use changes. Increased industrial agriculture results in rising land pressures and the loss of soil and forest carbon sinks elsewhere. Such a declaration disallowing corn ethanol biofuel from counting as emissions reductions would be a considerable blow to the corn-ethanol industry in the United States and would likely set a national precedent.

Ecological Internet and Rainforest Rescue are concerned with America's growing ethanol industry, and the precedent it sets for massive agricultural industrialization of the world's remaining rainforests and other natural wildlands. Please call upon the CARB to heed the overwhelming evidence that agrofuels worsen climate change through further deforestation and the destruction of other soils and ecosystems, drive food prices up, force more people worldwide into hunger, malnutrition and landlessness; and decimate biodiversity and ecosystems.

TAKE ACTION NOW: http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=corn_ethanol2

DISCUSS THIS ALERT: http://www.climateark.org/blog/2009/04/biofuel-from-corn-ethanol-is-n.asp



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