Do you think that, its best to clear forests to planting bio fuel crops?

Answer 1

Certainly not, forests are very important for our survival and bio diversity in our forests have not been studied fully till now so this should not be done. As for our fuel requirements we should live more sustainably and reduce fuel consumption especially fossil fuel.

Fossil fuel is the biggest factor in human impact in global warming and contributes almost 70% to the problem with forest degradation and felling being around 30% and other pollutents and factors are the rest.

If we cut down forests it will in long run increase the global warming impact. Bio fuels are less polluting but fossil fuel is not replacable till now and more researches are being done for this but that may take a lot of time.

Our immediate action should be to reduce fossil fuel consumption and cutting down forests and also reduce pollution.

Answer 2

No, we don’t need to.

Back in the 1970’s during the energy crunch the federal government started a program to make us energy independent. One of the solutions was to make oil from algae, and use that oil to make bio-diesel. They had a strain of algae that produced 50% of its weight in oil, and it could be grown where other crops wouldn't grow, so it wouldn’t take up farm land or divert food into fuel. The problems were the crunch didn’t last long enough and the price of oil fell. Oil from algae was more expensive then crude oil, but now the price of crude it up there, some people are really looking into it. They have calculated how much oil we would need to produce, and they claim we could produce enough oil to supply ALL the US energy need. Of course it’s still a little more expensive compared to diesel, but it crude keeps going up you might see it.

Answer 3

nope! i don't think so. though planting bio fuel crops would mean producing a biofuel gas would mean no net increase in carbon emmission.
what does biofuels concern?
Biofuels produce greenhouse gas emissions during their manufacture. The source of these emissions are: fertilisers and agricultural processing, transportation of the biomass, processing of the fuels, and transport and delivery of biofuels to the consumer. Some biofuel production processes produce far fewer emissions than others; for example sugar cane cultivation requires fewer fertiliser inputs than corn cultivation, therefore sugar cane bioethanol reduces greenhouse gas emissions more effectively than corn derived bioethanol. However, given the appropriate agricultural techniques and processing strategies, biofuels can provide emissions savings of at least 50% when compared to fossil fuels such as diesel and petroleum. Though clearing out the forest would destroy its biodiversity and might have another or result to a another problem.

whew!!! that's it!

Answer 4

Please do not think of clearing the forests are they are becoming a rare thing now either due to forest fire or some other calamities forests are reducing in number and cutting it even more worsen the situation and where the plants are not there you can plant anything do farming or put plants/trees.

Answer 5

No there is lot of barren land available where we can plant trees like Jatropha which give pretty good quality biodiesel.
No need to clear forests now, we will need to reduce human population though.

Answer 6

No, we dont have enough trees to cope with everything we are doing at the moment. We also dont have enough land to grow enough crops to be able to maintain the levels required of fuel at the moment. We need to reduce our levels of fuel requirements before we could support our country. At the moment we need to import it, even if we grew bio fuel crops on every bit of spare land in this country we couldnt keep up.

Answer 7

The first thing to do is to increase the energy efficiency

That is why the US energy policy is non sense since it does not take into account the fact that the following usages are competing for land:
- natural areas for biodiversity
- food production
- energy production
- human direct use

The FIRST way to go is a more efficient energy use... and in this regard, the US has a lot to improve, even compared to China

Answer 8

theres no need to clear forrest to plant bio fuel crops beacuse there are alot of areas that have no more trees were planting biofuel crops can tribe

Answer 9

No, the best solution would be to reduce the human population by 50-60% and maintain it at that level perpetually while adopting a strong culture of conservation and recycling.

Answer 10

We need rain. If forests are removed more pollution& no water