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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: megimoo on April 14, 2008, 10:17:56 PM
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The EU Commission on Monday rejected claims that producing biofuels is a "crime against humanity" that threatens food supplies, and vowed to stick to its goals as part of a climate change package.
"There is no question for now of suspending the target fixed for biofuels," said Barbara Helfferich, spokeswoman for EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas.
"You can't change a political objective without risking a debate on all the other objectives," which could see the EU landmark climate change and energy package disintegrate, an EU official said.
Their comments came amid growing unease over the planting of biofuel crops as food prices rocket and riots against poverty and hunger multiply worldwide.
UN Special Rapporteur for the Right to Food Jean Ziegler told German radio Monday that the production of biofuels is "a crime against humanity" because of its impact on global food prices.Meanhwile Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, head of Nestle, the world's biggest food and beverage company, last month argued that "to grant enormous subsidies for biofuel production is morally unacceptable and irresponsible".
"There will be nothing left to eat," he added.
EU leaders, seeking to show the way on global warming, have pledged to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 20 percent by 2020.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080414/sc_afp/euunfarmpovertyenergypoliticsbiofuel_080414143918&printer=1;_ylt=Appr9i3F7e2HzUwve7TyM5nQOrgF
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stupid liberal, communist, socialist......................Dumbass primitive IDJITS
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A few million hungry, a few million dead -- as long as I, as a liberal, sleep well knowing I Saved The Planet, who gives a shit?
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stupid liberal, communist, socialist......................Dumbass primitive IDJITS
It's really quixotic. Time to unearth Attila the Hun and Toma Torquemada, so they deal with the left in an extermely, brutal, harsh, and swift manner. :evillaugh:
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I don't know, it sounds like the perfect liberal plan to me. They get it all: population control, more government dependents, and an ineffecient feel-good program.
Cindie
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I don't know, it sounds like the perfect liberal plan to me. They get it all: population control, more government dependents, and an ineffecient feel-good program.
Cindie
Everything the libs could ask for and then some!
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Killing the poor and defenseless to assuage the self-comforting political fashions of rich whites.
Somehwere in the lower bowels of Hell, Margaret Sanger is cackling.