GM Biofuels: Another Planned Disaster

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By Rady Ananda

Governments around the world have proposed biofuels, liquid fuels derived from plants, fungi or algae, as a solution to today’s energy and environmental crises. But this alternative is as bad as, or worse than, fossil fuels.

Reasons to reject biofuels include:

• Loss of farmland for fuel land, increasing food prices and world hunger;
• Deforestation and conversion of prairie to cropland, causing a net increase in greenhouse gases;
• Increased reliance on eco-destructive pesticides; and
• Proliferation of dangerous genetically modified crops.