Consequences

Sometimes the policies that the US fosters and the public condones has unintended consequences.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://stri.org/english/about_stri/headline_news/news/article.php?id=736" title="interesting">Corn… fuel… fire!<br />nU.S. corn subsidies promote Amazon de forestation</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Amazon deforestation and fires are being aggravated by US farm subsidies, claims STRI’s staff scientist William Laurance.<br />n <br />n According to Laurance, whose findings are reported this week in Science (December 14), a recent spike in Amazonian fires is being promoted by massive US subsidies that promote American corn production for ethanol. The ethanol is being blended with gasoline as an automobile fuel. </blockquote><br />n<br />nSo, the mania for ethanol in this country is also driving rain forest destruction. Then by the same token, they blame everything Americans do for rain forest destruction. Interesting though that our subsidizing of corn and ethanol can have such an effect.<br />n<br />n<strong>Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed. James Otis</strong>