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Ethanol Fueling Amazon Fires?
By Mr Ethanol | October 22, 2007
Celsias:
Looking out of my window last week, I was dismayed to witness more than a dozen trees getting cut down. A basic equation was quickly calculated in my mind: more cars equals less trees. They were being removed to make room for additional car parking spaces.
Seeing this occur made me think of the many nations around the world that are really starting to ‘mobilise’. Countries like China, India, and other regions in Asia and South America are exchanging their human and animal powered vehicles for motorised versions. As the infrastructure needed by globalised economics develops to allow for the mass transit of goods from the South to the North (more motorways, roads, highway services, centralised shopping centres, truck and car parks, etc.), nature is getting pushed further and further into the periphery of both existence and our consciousness.
The connection between our economic growth edging nature into permanent exile, however, is perhaps most profoundly observed in Brazil - where the demand for increased ethanol production, as well as other agricultural activities, may be literally financing the Amazon going up in smoke. While offset providers are making money from planting trees, are Brazilian farmers being paid to watch them burn - and all so we can ‘drive sustainably’?
Topics: Agriculture, Brazil, Ethanol |
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