<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for You can’t begin an argument about coal’s future by assuming coal’s future]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Biodiversivist http://www.grist.org/article/coal-is-the-enemy-of-the-human-race-begging-the-question-edition/ Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:18:10 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/coal-is-the-enemy-of-the-human-race-begging-the-question-edition/1 Now you know how I feel every time I see

another car with a biodiesel sticker on it. Coal's main problem is CO2 production at the exhaust pipe. Biodiesel's main problem is CO2 production via the destruction of carbon sinks. But agrofuels also destroy ecosystems and exacerbate the extinction event. They are, pound for pound, worse than coal.

How disengenius to say that coal is not going away. Make it pay its external costs and nobody would touch it.

In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Poison Darts--Protecting the biodiversity of our world

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another car with a biodiesel sticker on it. Coal's main problem is CO2 production at the exhaust pipe. Biodiesel's main problem is CO2 production via the destruction of carbon sinks. But agrofuels also destroy ecosystems and exacerbate the extinction event. They are, pound for pound, worse than coal.

How disengenius to say that coal is not going away. Make it pay its external costs and nobody would touch it.

In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Poison Darts--Protecting the biodiversity of our world

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