According to FuturePundit, through Instapundit, the demand for biofuels is destroying rain forests. As Glenn Reynolds said, “oops”. Apparently, the worldwide market for “green energy” (mainly from Europe) is driving the need for vegetable oils, especially palm and soybean oil. And, this is being met by countries in the tropical climates cutting down their rain forests for farmland.
On the other hand, I keep thinking of the beginning of the last century, when the advent of the automobile was looked upon as a pollution reducer. Imagine a city the size of Manhattan with a horse for every car…
I also remembering someone calling hydrogen burning “non-polluting” because it “just” produced water vapor. Of course, water vapor is a greenhouse gas…
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