"The leaders of Bolivia and Peru have attacked the use of biofuels, saying they have made food too expensive for the poor," reports The Guardian. "Speaking at the United Nations, the Bolivian president, Evo Morales, said the increased use of farmland for fuel crops was causing a 'tremendous increase' in food prices."
"In recent years, we've heard that climate change could be catastrophic for nature and humanity. But it's becoming increasingly evident that over the next few decades, climate-change policies could prove even more catastrophic. ... Climate-change remedies can lead to greater poverty, starvation and disease, as well as widespread ecological destruction -- some of the very misfortunes that they're supposed to prevent. In our haste to address global warming, we have yet to think seriously about our policies' unintended effects. The results have been disastrous, and they're only getting more so."
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