Comments on: Top Three Quizzical Quotes at State of the Planet http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/03/31/top-three-quizzical-quotes-at-state-of-the-planet/ Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:33:34 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Ryan http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/03/31/top-three-quizzical-quotes-at-state-of-the-planet/#comment-62004 Ryan Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:12:53 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.wordpress.com/?p=4507#comment-62004 Perhaps Mr. Rodrigues is either surprisingly uninformed or perhaps has been imbibing his product: "In Brazil, for instance, only a tiny portion of the Amazon is being torn down to grow the sugarcane that fuels most Brazilian cars. More deforestation results from a chain reaction so vast it's subtle: U.S. farmers are selling one-fifth of their corn to ethanol production, so U.S. soybean farmers are switching to corn, so Brazilian soybean farmers are expanding into cattle pastures, so Brazilian cattlemen are displaced to the Amazon. It's the remorseless economics of commodities markets. "The price of soybeans goes up," laments Sandro Menezes, a biologist with Conservation International in Brazil, "and the forest comes down." The Clean Energy Scam http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1725975,00.html Perhaps Mr. Rodrigues is either surprisingly uninformed or perhaps has been imbibing his product:

“In Brazil, for instance, only a tiny portion of the Amazon is being torn
down to grow the sugarcane that fuels most Brazilian cars. More
deforestation results from a chain reaction so vast it’s subtle: U.S.
farmers are selling one-fifth of their corn to ethanol production, so
U.S. soybean farmers are switching to corn, so Brazilian soybean farmers
are expanding into cattle pastures, so Brazilian cattlemen are displaced
to the Amazon. It’s the remorseless economics of commodities markets.
“The price of soybeans goes up,” laments Sandro Menezes, a biologist
with Conservation International in Brazil, “and the forest comes down.”

The Clean Energy Scam
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1725975,00.html

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