carbon?? what carbon?

I was thinking about biofuels and all when something hit me. All of these biofuels and talk of utilizing methane and all, well, aren't they simply releasing carbon still?

And talking about biofuels - it doesn't look very green right now, especially the corn ethanol. And how biofuels have actually contributed to rising food prices, simply because agricultural land that was originally used for crops are now being devoted to fuel production. Which sucks for the rest of us. Meanwhile an agricultural crisis looms ahead for all of us, partly contributed by bad weather which might be man-made, and by bad policies, which are definitely man-made.

We will need to rethink the way we think of carbon and carbon fuels. The only way to lower carbon levels is really to close the carbon cycle effectively. Currently its simply a one way street - we burn the carbon, it goes into the atmosphere, and thats it. Obviously we need technologies to somehow recapture the carbon for its cycling through the entire ecosystem.

I think the best way to actually reduce carbon levels is simply to plant more trees, or seed more plankton in the ocean.

oh well.

We are really facing 2 problems - the global climate problem, and the sustainable development problem, of which I think the latter is actually a much more serious concern.

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