Biofuel impact on biodiversity and food crops
In the first
week of May 2008 Gabriel spoke with his Brazilian colleague Ms Marina
Silva which assured that sugar cane plantations and soy seed would not
harm the environment and there was no danger of more clearcut of the
Amazonian forest.
Two weeks later she resigned as environment
minister after the Amazon development project was taken away from her
and given to the Harvard Professor Roberto Mangabeira Unger who
wants to include the Amazon Region in one of the greatest
agro-industry project ever seen. It will boost Brazilian ethanol
production to replace 5% of crude oil by 20025. Download ACTION COP 9
OurFood called on all participants of COP 9 and all Governments to stop
bio alcohol and support solar electricity and hydrogen as described
by DESERTEC and the Arabian Desert Solar Energy Proposal.
Specifically the following persons are asked to support solar energy from the desert:
1.-
German environment minister Sigmael Gabriel His Ministry is informed in
relation to an Arabian Desert Solar Energy Project. which produces
solar electricity and hydrogen which might reduce the pressure on
alcohol and coal ppower plants.
2.- Professor Hans Joachim
Schellnhuber CBE from the Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung,
Professor Schellnhuber is the advisor of the German government
concerning climate protection.
3.- A. Runge-Metzger von: European Commission, Directorate-General
Environment
Directorate C -- Climate Change & Air, ENV.C.1-Climate Strategy,
International Negotiation and monitoring of EU action. Runge-Metzger
is the head of COP 9.
4.- All attendants of COP 9, specifically
members of the Arabian states, such as Egypt, Algeria, Saudi Arabia,
Kuwait Jordan and Emirates.
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Old
logistic problems of the bucolic ethanol mills of the past decade are
solved. The agro-business took over, with enormous problems for the
environment, like the pre-harvest burn of leaves of the sugar cane seen
here.
Sugarcane in Brazil reviving the Vietnam War: [1] 
Before
harvesting the fields are sprayed with Herbicide 2,4 D, component of
Agent Orange, which was used in the Vietnam War. Afterwards the fields
are burnt, setting free huge clouds of dioxin that cause respiratory
diseases of epidemic dimensions in the affected areas.
[1] A Seed Europe: Sugarcane in Brazil: working conditions like in the times of slavery
http://www.aseed.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=426&Itemid=107