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robbing Peter to pay Paul

Posted by celina on Saturday, 10 March 2007 07:16:48

We have based wars on who has the oil, now Bush wants to woo the Brazilian government into growing crops for ethanol, which has already meant that the Brazilians are cutting down even more rainforest to make room for this. Surely its the rainforest we need more than the ethanol, isn't it?

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Posted by Splatfly on Saturday, 10 March 2007 14:27:31

Once you cut down the forests you can't just replant the trees. And for Brazil to do as America says on agriculture, well I will just remind you of the Dust Bowl which happened due to America's industrialisation of the wheat belt.