MLB "Green" alert: your rush to 'carbon offsets' is inducing global famine

Sports Illustrated cover from March 2007. MLB was used to sell what what has turned out to be emerging global famine,

• panic, and an excess of CO2.

"This Earth Day finds the world threatened not by rising sea levels, but by rising food prices. Many on the planet are

• more likely to starve than drown, and we have only Gore's disciples to blame....

• The Gore-induced rush to biofuels has diverted crops such as corn, soybeans and palm oil from food to fuel.
• Vast swaths of rain forest in places like Malaysia and Indonesia have been cleared to provide farmland not to feed the hungry but to fuel our cars. Our own grain belt has been increasingly diverted to ethanol over corn flakes.

This has pressured food prices while damaging the environment.

• In the U.S., more cultivation has increased runoff from pesticides and fertilizer, creating dead zones for aquatic life from Chesapeake Bay to the Gulf of Mexico.

• As Indur M. Goklany of the Cato Institute reports, agricultural expansion leads to
• higher releases of carbon from biomass and soil above and below ground. Fertilizers that increase yields also increase nitrogen discharge into waters and emissions of nitrous oxide
• — a greenhouse gas that heats the atmosphere 300 times more effectively than carbon dioxide.

According to World Bank data, as of March,

• world grain prices had tripled and fertilizer prices had quadrupled since 2000.

Food prices have risen an astounding 65% just since the beginning of this year.

• "Climate-change remedies can lead to greater poverty,
• starvation and
• disease, as well as
• widespread ecological destruction — some of the very misfortunes that they're supposed to prevent," Goklany wrote in the New York Post. "In our haste to address global warming, we have yet to think seriously about
• our policies' unintended effects.""

From editorial, IInvestors Business Daily, "Earth Daze, Courtesy of Al Gore," (or check any grocery store), 4/21/08 via Lucianne.com

• Bud Selig, the NRDC, MLB, and man-made global warming. MLB press release about which I posted on 4/14/08.

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