No, not from any heating of the earth, but from kneee jerk GW k00ks that
are
filling up their gas tanks with corn ethanol, while people are starving .
More compassionate liberalism on display again for the world to die from.
Global warming rage lets global hunger grow
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/04/14/ccview114.
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By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, International Business Editor
Last Updated: 1:08pm BST 15/04/2008
We drive, they starve. The mass diversion of the North American grain
harvest into ethanol plants for fuel is reaching its political and moral
limits.
The reality is that people are dying already," said Jacques Diouf, of the
UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). "Naturally people won't be
sitting dying of starvation, they will react," he said.
The UN says it takes 232kg of corn to fill a 50-litre car tank with
ethanol.
That is enough to feed a child for a year. Last week, the UN predicted
"massacres" unless the biofuel policy is halted.
We are all part of this drama whether we fill up with petrol or ethanol.
The
substitution effect across global markets makes the two morally identical.
Mr Diouf says world grain stocks have fallen to a quarter-century low of
5m
tonnes, rations for eight to 12 weeks. America - the world's food
superpower - will divert 18pc of its grain output for ethanol this year,
chiefly to break dependency on oil im****ts. It has a 45pc biofuel target
for
corn by 2015.
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