World Bank Report: Biofuel Caused Food Crisis

I've been working on the issues of agrofuels for a long time now giving presentations and workshops on this false solution to climate change. They are not only a bad idea to begin with, being extremely inefficient to produce (corn ethanol using more fossil fuels than it substitutes), but they are also extremely bad for the environment and global warming by, for example, encouraging the destruction of more and more rain forest land for industrial monoculture.

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Today we learn the World Bank has a secret report essentially pinning the blame on agrofuels for the current world food crisis:

Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% - far more than previously estimated - according to a confidential World Bank report obtained by the Guardian.

The damning unpublished assessment is based on the most detailed analysis of the crisis so far, carried out by an internationally-respected economist at [the] global financial body.

Secret Report: Biofuel Caused Food Crisis

This is huge. Why isn't this on the front page of every newspaper? Millions are starving and dying around the world because they cannot afford to pay for food and there is barely a peep. The insanity needs to stop. DO SOMETHING.