Tony Juniper is main cause of starvation - official!

Latest news from the Guardian:

Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% — far more than previously estimated — according to a confidential World Bank report obtained by the Guardian. The damning unpublished assessment is based on the most detailed analysis of the crisis so far, carried out by an internationally-respected economist at global financial body.

And as we all know, Friends of the Earth lobbied the government hard to get the biofuels obligation put in place. Environmentalism kills!

Comments

[Edderly]

Possibly a little unfair on FOE really since they had published concerns on biofuels some time ago.

via: http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2005/12/06/worse-than-fossil-fuel/

Friends of the Earth et al, September 2005. The Oil for Ape Scandal: how palm oil is threatening orang-utan survival. Research report. www.foe.co.uk/resource/reports/oil_for_ape_full.pdf

Not to disagree that biofuel is a complete debacle. It seemed to be a win-win situation for governments interested in looking green and trying to prop up western subsidised farming. What was the road to hell paved with...?

[Bishop Hill]

They weren't concerned enough not to campaign to make them mandatory. In fact it's extraordinary that they continued to campaign for them when they knew of the adverse environmental consequences.

[Chris, Baildon]

Greenpeace are still pushing biofuels...

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/climate-change/solutions/bioenergy

sure they whitter on about sustainability and food security.

Good to see its colder now then when Hansen said we had 10 years to save the world - 20 years ago.

[Bishop Hill]

Now that's interesting Chris. I had thought that Greenpeace had actually been quite sound on the issue.