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The New Biofuel Republics
www.i-sis.org.uk/NBR.php
Dr. Elizabeth Bravo and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho

Poor developing nations are to feed the voracious appetites
of rich countries for biofuels instead of their own hungry
masses, and suffer the devastation of their natural forests
and biodiversity.

The next European colonisation has begun

The end of cheap oil and the impending fuel crisis have
convinced the European Union and the United States to
seriously tackle their long-standing and worsening
“addiction to oil”, not by kicking the habit, but by
guzzling biofuels instead. These “carbon neutral” fuels –
biodiesel or bioethanol - make even committed
environmentalists feel good about getting into their SUVs,
as they do not contribute to carbon emissions. Burning
biofuels simply sends back into the atmosphere carbon
dioxide that the plants took out when they were growing in
the field. The snag is that there simply isn’t sufficient
arable land on which to grow all the biofuel crops needed to
satisfy the voracious appetites of the industrialised
nations.

So, the next phase of colonisation has begun. The
industrialised countries are looking to the Third World to
feed their addiction: the land is there for the taking as is
cheap labour, and the environmental damages of large
plantations, biofuels extraction and refining can all be
outsourced, exactly as they were in the extraction of crude
oil. Brazil is already currently the main supplier of
bioethanol to the United Kingdom.

Companies dedicated to biodiesel have set their sights on
countries in Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific,
where they can also obtain raw material at competitive
prices.

www.i-sis.org.uk/NBR.php

CO2: This time it's personal
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4479226.stm

By Richard Black

So you've filled your tank with petrol, wiped the bugs off your windscreen, and you're standing in the queue holding two pieces of plastic which will finalise the purchase.

One card carries the logo of your bank; the other, a picture of a burning planet.

The first will deduct money from your bank account; the second, credits from your carbon account.

You cough up your money and your credits, get back to the car and on your way; your tank is filled, and, what's more, the planet saved from the uncertain fallout of man-made global warming.

Warm welcome

If you possess the second card, you are now living in DTQ world; not the vision of some semi-adolescent computer game designers, but a sober academic theory which is now attracting the interest of politicians desperate to find new, effective ways of curtailing greenhouse gas emissions.

"In this system, individuals are literally stakeholders in the atmosphere," Richard Starkey told MPs and other interested parties in the UK's parliament last week.

"One could get [people to] buy-in to the process of emissions reduction and even generate a sense of common purpose."

For the last two years, Mr Starkey has been working on DTQs - Domestic Tradable Quotas - at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.

He has been honing the concept which writer David Fleming invented nine years ago and pinning down details of how a scheme could work in the UK.

He will be publishing his conclusions in December.