Russell Chapman wrote: > > The same source puts Brazil at 5th in the world for the > same reason - ironically due to US AGW prevention measures > The deforestation in Brazil has _zero_ correlation with AGW prevention, biofuels, or anything like that. It's just the continuous push of civilization against forests, the same event that devastated European forests 500 years ago and USA forests 200 years ago.
FWIW, I will repeat _again_: the rainforest is 3000 km or so away from the sugarcane areas. Or, in terms that geographically-challenged people may understand: the rainforest is about the same distance from the sugarcane area as it is from _Florida_. Also, biofuels have _almost zero_ impact on the agflation. Anyone who is not mathematically challenged can compute the area dedicated to biofuels, and the area dedicated to food. The agflation is caused, primarily, by those damned 300 million chinese, indians, and africans that decided that they want to eat. The irony of it is that the same guys who were putting import barriers are now crying against the export barries. And the same guys who claimed that import barriers were an evil things are now supporting export barriers. Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
