The Western Appetite For Biofuels Is Causing Starvation In The Poor World

Dahil sa inaasahang $100.0/ barrel na pagtaas ng presyo ng langis sa world market bago magpasko, nagkukumahog ngayon ang Malakanyang kung paano tutugon sa tawag ng panahon, kung paano maiibsan ang tindi ng impak ng krisis sa ekonomya at kung anong klaseng raket ang papasukan.

Sa pamamagitan ng pagsasabatas ni Ate Glo ng Biofuel Act at Biofuel Bill sa Senado, sisimulan na ang produksyon ng biofuel / ethanol sa Pilipinas. Nakasaad sa batas na "titiyakin nitong maico-convert ang domestic na asukal/tubuhan, niyugan at iba pang raw materials para sa kakailanganing biofuel-ethanol production."

Ayon sa Kalihim ng Departament of Agriculture(DA)Arthur Yap, “ang nasabing batas ay lubhang makakatulong daw upang palakasin ang sektor ng agrikultura at pag-iibayuhin ang pag-unlad at kita ng mga magbubukid sa kanayunan.” Sa katunayan, kung may papasok na investor, may 60,250 hektara na may katumbas na 274.0 milyong litro ng ethanol ang pasisimulan sa bansa.

Dagdag pa, mayroon pang karagdagang dalawampung (20) probinsya na natukoy sa sampung (10) rehiyon na maaring paglaanan ng mahigit 200,000 hektaryang tubuhan na ihahatag bilang provision upang hatakin ang mga mamumuhunang dayuhan para sa produksyon ng biofuel. Tulad ng inaasahan, mga investor mula sa China ang kagyat na nagsignify na pumasok. (larawan:www.centralillinoisenergy.com/images/Top%20of...)

Kung mangyari man ang ganitong kalakaran, "lalabas na hindi totoong mga Pilipinong magbubukid ang kikita sa ethanol produkston, tulad ng dati, mga foreign investors, mga dayuhang CHINESE - ZTE Broadband/Made in China ule, kasabwat ang ilang makapangyarihan tao sa Malakanyang at ilang pulitiko ang sasagana sa labanan."
Doy Cinco / IPD
Nov 7, 2007
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The Western Appetite For Biofuels Is Causing Starvation In The Poor World
By George Monbiot
07 November, 2007
Monbiot.com

It doesn’t get madder than this. Swaziland is in the grip of a famine and receiving emergency food aid. Forty per cent of its people are facing acute food shortages. So what has the government decided to export? Biofuel made from one of its staple crops, cassava. The government has allocated several thousand hectares of farmland to ethanol production in the district of Lavumisa, which happens to be the place worst hit by drought. It would surely be quicker and more humane to refine the Swazi people and put them in our tanks. Doubtless a team of development consultants is already doing the sums.........
(larawan sa taas:www.climatechangecorp.com/resources/images/co...)

Click / Read: http://www.countercurrents.org/monbiot071107.htm


The Great Biofuel Hoax
Monday, June 25, 2007
By Eric Holt-Gimenez, Indypendent. Posted June 25, 2007.
Link: http://www.alternet.org/environment/54218/

Touted by politicians and industry as "green" energy, biofuels come with a high price tag.
For an alternative viewpoint on corn-based ethanol, read "David Morris's Give Ethanol a Chance: The Case for Corn-Based Fuel."

Biofuels invoke an image of renewable abundance that allows industry, politicians, the World Bank, the United Nations and even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to present fuel from corn, sugarcane, soy and other crops as a replacement for oil that will bring about a smooth transition to a renewablefuel economy.
(Larawan sa baba: Ethanol production plant in Indiana, USA ...www.inforse.dk/europe/dieret/altfuels/ethanol...)

Myths of abundance divert attention from powerful economic interests that benefit from this biofuels transition, avoiding discussion of the growing price that citizens of the global South are beginning to pay to maintain the consumptive oil-based lifestyle of the North. Biofuel mania obscures the profound consequences of the industrial transformation of our food and fuel systems -- the agro-fuels transition.........

Click/Read:http://doycinco.blogspot.com/2007/06/great-biofuel-hoax.html