Food costs stoke debate about EU biofuels targets

The Climate CHange scam is the 21st Century Holocaust, killing millions in Africa by artificially raising food prices with this biofuel scam!

Then there's the nonsense about not allowing them to industrialise, which is the dream of Africa, take it from the first country that did: you won't regret it.

Then there are the EU subsidies to EU farmers, distorting free market economics i.e. stopping the Africans from trading their way to prosperity.

The IV Reich and it's many tools of destruction must be abolished.

Vote UKIP in 2014!

Vested-interests always corrupt the mind. All common-sense goes out of the window and eventually we all pay the very, very big price – conflict on a global scale.

It appears that you do not understand the human tragedy that lies on the horizon for humankind, apparently you stick your head in the sand and that problem is for another generation. I can tell you and others can, that Bio-fuel production will hardly dent the supply side for carbon based energy requirement and if you undertook your research into this you would find the same - the reason, we have not enough crop land available. How is it that people like yourself conjure up information that will never materialise. You also do not comprehend apparently that the earth surface area comprises of 71% water and 29% land (UNFAO). But where world's total arable land only accounts for 10.57% of this according to the CIA facts book, due to mountain ranges and inhospitable areas that crops cannot be grown.

Since 1961 until 2002 for instance, arable land declined by 53.76% (UNFAO) per person as there were more people and desertification and erosion had taken a land mass the size of Iceland away from humanity every year. This is still the case and the process is accelerating. Therefore our available area to grow crops to feed us is diminishing infinitum and is not being replenished. Indeed it takes between 800 to 1000 years for a 2.5 cm thick layer of fertile soil to be formed in nature according to international research.

You ask what is the answers, the answer lies in a huge equivalent ‘marshal plan’ to harness the world’s creative thinking to solve our future problems.
In this respect our present development mechanism is ruining the planet and its ability to support the human and carbon-based life. If we continue like we are as MIT and the Royal Society have cited recently in their respective release of their reports that human life will reach a catastrophic point and not that far away. They say around 2030. So please get real and read what eminent research is stating so that you do not get sucked in by the unreal world.

There is no doubt that we have to change our ways of development. Primary energy sources in the future have to come from the power of the oceans and seas and where this release of energy is 24/7. Unfortunately governments around the world have been suckered in by the power wind lobby that will contribute little when carbon offsets are calculated and massive maintenance costs to keep them going infinitum.
Governments have really to start changing their mindsets that are on a hiding to literally nowhere for humankind and in the medium to long term (25 to 100 years).

Once we and governments get their head around initially we need to invest in unprecedented research

If you have studied the depletion of the world’s natural resources you will see that uranium for nuclear energy transformation has only a predicted life to extinction of around 40 years at the current rates of extraction. Therefore nuclear in time will run out as an option and therefore why the oceans, seas and tides hold the energy solution for humanity. But governments persist in not doing very little or on the scale that is required here in R&D because of them being brainwashed by the vested-interest global wind energy lobby. Once we have secured sufficient ‘free’ primary energy this can be used to drive the next generation of cars (electric) etc and a cleaner world can be created for all.

I just wish that the huge vested interests of global 2000 companies looked further than today and what they are doing, and to tomorrow and the sustainability for the next generations to come. Unfortunately they are not and that is why we shall in the not-too-distant future see major situations arise that eventually end in conflict. Again in this respect you will not be aware what the national Intelligence Council (NIC) based in Washington (cited as the world’s most eminent intelligence institution) stated in late 2009 for the first time ever that in the medium term (next 50 years) strategic nuclear weapons would most probably used to protect natural resources and borders.

Dr David Hill
World Innovation Foundation