Reflections over Easter week
Mar. 26th, 2008 by AlIt seems that the petro led modern world have move into the churches too, not only it provides air conditioned parishes but also the way people behaved in it as I witnessed during the Easter week here in my local church.It seems materialism in guise of modernism drives the believers in all directions with jammed car park to scantilly dressed women from my Church, how long can this madness last?Can’t one find any peace even in Churches nowaday?
Biofuel seems to be a step in relieving the dependence on fossil fuel found in many middle eastern states that’s suffering from instabilty in their region.Also it helps to combat global warming from the rampant use of fossil energy from the world during past decades.But are the assumptions correct?
The thought comes from that biofuel arises from plant based rather than petro based so they are more environmentally friendly. However on a closer look, soybeans and corns used to produce these fuels are contributors to soil erosion and water pollution needing large amounts of pestcides and fertilizer to grow and harvest.
It also affect the global food production by making it less affordable to the poor driving the masses of poor to starvation if the reduction takes place in favour of biofuel propping the food prices up worldwide.And after all, the efficiency of biofuel can never replace fossil fuel as survey shows that it will take the entire corn crop of America to replace 12% of the current petrol consumption.
Till we figure out how to deal with the food and environmental hazards caused by biofuel ,it will seem to remain as a cottage industry not rivalling her older crude oil cousin.
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