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Originally Posted by ba1025
The earth will do fine if we push the button and nuke ourselves into extinction too. i would hazard that the rain forest hasn't killed as many people as gunfore has in iraq. The rainforest sucks for growing food. The soil is poor and is spent in a few seasons. It's one of the reasons they keep slash and burning through.
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I bet the rain forest has killed tens of thousands more people than the war in Iraq has. Nature has killed more humans than humans have killed humans. Nature is cruel, unforgiving, and emotionless. We're just trying to eek out a living, like any other creatures on this planet.
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Originally Posted by ba1025
Corn Ethanol is about getting the votes of Farmers
Ethanol from sources like switch grass or Corn husks would be an entirely different animal and actually accomplish some good.
The best thing we could do to aid world hunger is end farm subsidies.
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Actually I'm for corn ethanol now. It raise food prices which adversely affects poor nations, usually the ones with the highest population growth rate. It's a way to stunt the growth of future polluters.