<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for <em>Seattle Times</em> columnist needs a new ride]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Jonas http://www.grist.org/article/danny-sings-the-blues/ Wed, 07 May 2008 05:21:12 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/danny-sings-the-blues/1 Ah, old biodiversionist

The price of diesel fuel has gone up 600% in Africa.

In order to lower food prices, save the environment and promote social and economic development, biodiesel does the trick. Without it, entire economies will collapse, leading to an environmental catastrophy as the one seen in places like Congo or Rwanda.

Biodiversionist thinks Africans must buy $250,000 carbon-fibre reinforced hydrogen trucks to transport vegetable oil to market, instead of living.

Luckily, biodiversionists' vision is not shared by the people in the South. Because it is a rather absurd vision.

Africans who make $100 a year cannot buy a $250,000 carbon-fibre reinforced truck. No matter how hard biodiversionist tries to convince us of the contrary.

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The price of diesel fuel has gone up 600% in Africa.

In order to lower food prices, save the environment and promote social and economic development, biodiesel does the trick. Without it, entire economies will collapse, leading to an environmental catastrophy as the one seen in places like Congo or Rwanda.

Biodiversionist thinks Africans must buy $250,000 carbon-fibre reinforced hydrogen trucks to transport vegetable oil to market, instead of living.

Luckily, biodiversionists' vision is not shared by the people in the South. Because it is a rather absurd vision.

Africans who make $100 a year cannot buy a $250,000 carbon-fibre reinforced truck. No matter how hard biodiversionist tries to convince us of the contrary.

]]> Comment #2 by Payton Chung http://www.grist.org/article/danny-sings-the-blues/ Thu, 08 May 2008 07:10:56 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/danny-sings-the-blues/2 not a panacea

There are no panaceas to a problem as big as global warming. We are going to need every single approach under the sun in order to reinvent our entire economy and society.

That said, biodiversivist wasn't recommending that people in Africa not use biofuels (although I don't see how anyone jumps to any conclusions about hydrogen, which wasn't mentioned at all in the original article) -- but that someone in Seattle, who has a great many options, should not see biodiesel as the solution to all his problems. It's not; indeed, there is no one solution.

]]> not a panacea

There are no panaceas to a problem as big as global warming. We are going to need every single approach under the sun in order to reinvent our entire economy and society.

That said, biodiversivist wasn't recommending that people in Africa not use biofuels (although I don't see how anyone jumps to any conclusions about hydrogen, which wasn't mentioned at all in the original article) -- but that someone in Seattle, who has a great many options, should not see biodiesel as the solution to all his problems. It's not; indeed, there is no one solution.

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