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posted by CoolHand on Thursday April 30 2015, @01:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the eat-it-don't-burn-it dept.

Inter Press Service reports

Ten years of debate in the European Union over the detrimental effects of the demand for biofuels for transport on food prices, hunger, forest destruction, land consumption, and climate change have come to an end.

The European Parliament finally agreed [to] new E.U. laws on Apr. 28 [which will] limit the use of crop-based biofuels, setting a limit on the quantity of biofuels that can be used to meet E.U. energy targets.

With Europe the world's biggest user and importer of biodiesel--from crops such as palm oil, soy, and rapeseed--the vote is expected to have a major impact around the world, notably in the European Union's main international supplier countries Indonesia, Malaysia, and Argentina. It is likely to signal the end to the expanding use of food crops for transport fuel.

[...]With the vote, the European Union has agreed to put a limit on biofuels from agricultural crops at seven percent of E.U. transport energy--with an option for member states to go lower. Before the vote, the expected "business as usual" scenario was for biofuels to account for 8.6 percent of E.U. transport energy by 2020. Current usage (PDF) stands at 4.7 percent, having declined in 2013.

 
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  • (Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 30 2015, @02:47AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 30 2015, @02:47AM (#176905)

    banning DDT [...] How many black and brown people will die

    1) The ban I know of is in the USA.

    2) USAian hegemony isn't total yet.
    Other folks can make their own pesticides where they are and can make their own regulations.

    3) The patent on DDT ran out long ago.

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    a world where a large percentage of the population hovers dangerously close to starvation

    ...because of people with guns--who desire even more political power.
    There's more than enough food production to feed everyone.
    The biggest driver of hunger, worldwide, is imperialism--specifically that of the USA.

    -- gewg_

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday April 30 2015, @03:20AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday April 30 2015, @03:20AM (#176917) Journal

    ...because of people with guns--who desire even more political power.
    There's more than enough food production to feed everyone.
    The biggest driver of hunger, worldwide, is imperialism--specifically that of the USA.

    Sure, there's a really good chance there will be a lot less hungry people in a few decades years, but it won't be because of the impending deimperialization of the US.

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Gravis on Thursday April 30 2015, @04:20AM

    by Gravis (4596) on Thursday April 30 2015, @04:20AM (#176936)

    There's more than enough food production to feed everyone.
    The biggest driver of hunger, worldwide, is imperialism--specifically that of the USA.

    actually, that's not true. the biggest driver of hunger, is greed and corruption of government officials, worldwide. the problem is that it's baked right into their cultures, so no matter who is in power, they are just as greedy and corrupt as the last guy.