The Last Frost

Our planet has well over 6 billion human beings living on it's surface, and we need a lot of food. Check out this page on WikiPedia about world hunger. The real problem with world hunger, at the moment at least, is not food quantity, it's the distribution of the food. So the old guilt trip about eating everything on your plate because of the starving kids in Africa is basically bullshit. If there was a way to get my extra food to those starving Africans then the problem would have already been solved. Everyone in the developed world should feel privledged to live in a country where you can eat a mango in Winter because you had the money to pay for it to get there.

Once things like ethanol and biodiesel start to take off though, how do we reconcile the fact that we've got so much food and so much money that we can literally burn it in our cars? I think it's inappropriate for Shell Oil to call biofuels inappropriate. They have done much more damage to the world by there mere existence that biofuels ever have, but looking to the future, is there argument valid?

Shell says biofuels from food crops "morally inappropriate" » Reuters.com

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