Shades of Life

Shades Of Life

Wednesday, August 27, 2008
And the one about Global Problems
Price of oil increase.
Food crisis intensify.
Environmental issues add up.

Hold it right there.Where is the world going to?

We are facing tremendous temperature increase
due to increasing global green house gas emissions.
In other words, global warming.

We are then encouraged to reduce these excess emissions
by going 'green'.
We are asked to board on public transport
We are told to substitute our petrol and diesel to biofuel
We concur to the fact the world is getting ever more ill by the day
so we do these things.



But there are other reasons why we do such things.
Oil prices go up up and away.
It continues to escalate.


Anyway, biofuel has caused the rise in food prices.
In actual fact, 30% increase.
That is A LOT.
Demand increase, so, supply increase
Amount of biofuels increase.




Wait a minute,
this means that the farmers providing these biofuels
have to expand their land.

How can this be done? Deforestation of course.
Forests are carbon sinks.

The number of carbon sinks are inversely proportional
to the conditions of global warming.
The lesser the sinks, the worse global warming gets.

Then, what about food?
If more biofuels are produced,
and land are expanded for it,
Where are food produced?

This is a little bit too much.

You want to save the world
but you end up killing it anyway.


P.S.: Long entry, I know.


Jugshatu 8/27/2008 11:42:00 AM

H.AhLee

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