biofuels involve the slaughter of the greatest of the Great Apes, the Orang-Utan:?

Question

The short-sighted idiocy of biofuels is not just confined to the ethanol boondoggle in the US. In much of the rest of the world there is a demand for biodiesel, which is being met in large part by the clearing of rainforests in Indonesia. The Daily Telegraph in the UK has the story of how these clearances As jungles are rapidly replaced by palm oil plantations, the great apes starve and are hunted, mutilated, burnt and snared by workers protecting their crops.At a rehabilitation centre run by the charity Borneo Orang-utan Survival, there are more than 600, mostly orphaned babies. Lone Nielsen, the centre’s director, estimates that for each of the 227 animals they rescued last year, five more were killed in central Borneo alone.

The unspeakable truth is that this would not be happening on the same scale were it not for the European Union’s climate change goals:

With the world desperate for “green” fuels, demand for palm oil, which is used in bio-diesel, is guaranteed to increase. According to European legislation two per cent of all diesel must be vegetable oil, rising to 5.7 per cent in 2010 and 10 per cent by 2020.

Free-market environmentalism says that the rainforests will be protected if there is a non-use value placed on them higher than the use value. It is sheer insanity that governmental environmentalism has actually raised the use value by means of such regulation.

As one of the most famous orang-utans in literature would say, “Ook” (”It may be a vital oxygenating biomass to you, but it’s home to me.”)

Answer 1

biodiesel and ethanol also do NOTHING to decrease global warming (they will actually increase CO2 emissions!)

we have to look back to nuclear energy, its actually much safer than the alternatives when you take damage to climate into consideration

Answer 2

Electric power transportation. No need for any type of fuel, nuclear energy for power plants

This whole bio-fuel, ethanol thing is crazy. How can anyone think enough of anything can be grown that will supply the world with the fuel it now consumes, much less supply us with what will be needed 20 years from now.

Electricity people!!

Answer 3

While biofuels are theoretically carbon nutral (the carbon in them was extracted from the atmosphere by the plants that produced them via photosynthesis), leaving the land dedicated to buiofuel production fallow, would be 'carbon negative' or whatever the environmentalist buzzword would be for sucking C02 out of the air is.

Answer 4

Your premise is misleading.

Biofuel neither requires nor results in the deaths of orangutans. Rather, Borneo's solution to increasing the available land used for plants used in biofuel production is resulting in the deaths.

Don't blame biofuel; blame Borneo.

Answer 5

"The greatness of a nation and it's Moral progress can be judged
by the way it's animals are treated."

"To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human
being. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled
it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man."
Gandhi

Isn't there a world wildllife federation that we can contact.

Answer 6

I think you'll find that greedy rich men are those responsible for the expansion of plantations of palm oil, not specifically for bio fuel, but for many uses.

Answer 7

You are getting better with your questions ( Shorter )
There is no global warming and animals are not going extinct
Really hot today, I wonder why?
There goes another Orangutans across my dried up grass

Answer 8

Yes.
Environmentalist Freaks, with help from the Democrat Party, are destroying our Rain Forests, and the Planet.

Answer 9

Compare the orangutans to all of the human life lost in pursuit of crude oil.... I'm thinking bio-fuels are still more humane.

Answer 10

Maybe Angelina Jolie can adopt some.