We have to discard the old-fashioned teaching of both science and [patriarchial] religion and begin to look on the forested land surface of the Earth as something that evolved to serve the metabolism of the Earth; it is irreplaceable. We have already taken more than half of the productive land to grow food for ourselves. How can we expect Gaia to manage the Earth if we try to take the rest of the land for fuel production.
~James Lovelock The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis & the Fate of Humanity
It figures that the Bush junta, which never misses an opportunity to fuck up, has seized on biofuels as their "compromise" answer to global climate change.
It's the corporate farm lobby behind this - whose dealings are so secretive and labyrinthine they make the Freemasons look like a 4H club. Even Atrios wrote that he's given up on understanding the Farm Bill and legislation of its ilk because these people and their operations are so impenetrable.
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