Burning Fossil Fuels or Tropical Deforestation, which is causing Glacial Acceleration?
Editor’s Note: Our committment to providing a forum for all points of view is not part of an attempt to hide our own beliefs. Regarding climate change, we believe changes in land use – tropical deforestation in particular – are of equal or greater significance than anthropogenic CO2 emissions. We further believe steps to reforest the tropics are far more feasible than reducing CO2 emissions. And we are appalled that well-intentioned policy makers, particularly in Europe, have allowed CO2 offset credits to fund subsidies for biofuel which has been the primary cause of accelerated rainforest destruction in recent years. In general, we believe using the biosphere (which can barely provide the 17 quadrillion BTUs of caloric energy per year that 6.2 billion people require) to grow biofuel – in order to make a dent in the 550 quadrillion BTUs of yearly energy for our technosphere – is absolute folly. Quite simply, in our rush to avoid using fossil fuels, we are destroying the world in order
