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Ethics for biofuels … and everything else
Author(s) -
Mortimer Nigel
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2011.00503.x
Subject(s) - biofuel , greenhouse gas , environmental ethics , natural resource economics , business , law and economics , economics , philosophy , microbiology and biotechnology , ecology , biology
Biofuels save the planet. Biofuels destroy rainforests, add to greenhouse gases and starve the poor. Both claims are made. What should we do? Decisions call for careful quantification of the benefits and drawbacks and an appreciation of the uncertainties involved, says Nigel Mortimer