Forest and Crop Biomass Can Never Ecologically Sustainably Power

Industrial Society

By Rainforest Rescue with Ecological Internet

http://www.regenwald.org/international/englisch/ &

http://www.ecoearth.info/

April 28, 2009

TAKE ACTION HERE NOW:

http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=no_biomass_energy

No Biomass/No Burning! Truly renewable energy must be defined as

including no energy production or climate mitigation claims from food

based agrofuels, live plants and ecosystems, or burning biomass of any type.

BRIEF BACKGROUND:

As the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is belatedly

gaining recognition within the United States, a suite of policy

initiatives, including the Markey-Waxman "American Climate and Energy

Security Act 2009" (ACESA), are being considered to promote biomass such

as tree plantations, and forest and agricultural 'waste', as renewable

energy. Given well known issues of sustainability regarding industrial

agriculture and land mismanagement, the need to more clearly define just

what "renewable" means is clearly shown. It is vitally important that

renewable energy be defined, within the context of federal energy and

climate policy, in strictly ecological sustainability terms, including

renewable energy and low carbon fuel standards.

In an alarming trend, burning and refining of plant biomass and also

toxic municipal waste (or for that matter anything that burns) is being

falsely promoted as renewable and of benefit to reducing emissions that

cause climate change. Humans already consume a large amount of the

energy represented in annual biological growth. To try to consume more

of Earth's primary productivity is clearly unsustainable land use. Even

partial replacement of fossil fuels with fresh plant biomass energy is

absolutely impossible for more than a few years. Trying will denude

Earth and make a very different planet, that is hostile and

uninhabitable to human life.

TAKE ACTION NOW:

http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=no_biomass_energy

DISCUSS THIS ALERT:

http://www.climateark.org/blog/2009/04/alert-forest-and-crop-biomass.asp

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Dr. Glen Barry

President

Ecological Internet, Inc.

USA

GlenBarry@EcologicalInternet.org

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