Friday, March 30, 2007
Fidel Castro criticizes Bush on biofuels - Sinister US policies
The 80-year-old revolutionary asserted that President Bush's support for using crops to produce ethanol for cars could deplete corn and other food stocks in developing nations, putting the lives of 3 billion people at risk worldwide.
"The sinister idea of converting food into combustible was definitively established as the economic line of the foreign policy of the United States," Mr. Castro wrote of Mr. Bush's discussions of biofuels with U.S. automakers this week.
He noted that Cuba has also experimented with extracting ethanol from sugar cane, but said there could be disastrous consequences if rich nations imported key food crops such as corn from poor countries to help meet energy needs. "Apply this recipe to the countries of the Third World, and you will see how many people among the hungry masses of our planet will no longer consume corn," the article said.
As the UK mid-liberal paper the Guardian says "Castro warns poor will starve for greener fuel".
Use of agricultural land on the subcontinent must be carefully considered, both because people need to eat (at least as well as they do now) and because of relevance to global warming. Obviously the peasants on the land will also need fair treatment and this fact is blogged here continually.
IMO: Congratulations Mr. Castro for yet again speaking out for the poor. Green factors are important to all, as even Bollywood points out these days, but savings should be made at the serious expense of the rich also , not just all impossibly burdened on the poor who have enough problems already.
"The sinister idea of converting food into combustible was definitively established as the economic line of the foreign policy of the United States," Mr. Castro wrote of Mr. Bush's discussions of biofuels with U.S. automakers this week.
He noted that Cuba has also experimented with extracting ethanol from sugar cane, but said there could be disastrous consequences if rich nations imported key food crops such as corn from poor countries to help meet energy needs. "Apply this recipe to the countries of the Third World, and you will see how many people among the hungry masses of our planet will no longer consume corn," the article said.
As the UK mid-liberal paper the Guardian says "Castro warns poor will starve for greener fuel".
Use of agricultural land on the subcontinent must be carefully considered, both because people need to eat (at least as well as they do now) and because of relevance to global warming. Obviously the peasants on the land will also need fair treatment and this fact is blogged here continually.
IMO: Congratulations Mr. Castro for yet again speaking out for the poor. Green factors are important to all, as even Bollywood points out these days, but savings should be made at the serious expense of the rich also , not just all impossibly burdened on the poor who have enough problems already.
# posted by uv : 1:02 AM
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