"Clean" Nuclear Energy? Global Warming, Public Health, and Justice
The increase in renewable energy production, particularly the shift of corn from a food crop to the raw material for a fifteen billion gallon fuel mandate in the 2007 U.S. federal energy bill, has contributed to a new global food crisis and to conversion of more and more arable land to monocrops, le...
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Veröffentlicht in: | The Hastings Center report 2008-07, Vol.38 (4), p.16-18 |
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Zusammenfassung: | The increase in renewable energy production, particularly the shift of corn from a food crop to the raw material for a fifteen billion gallon fuel mandate in the 2007 U.S. federal energy bill, has contributed to a new global food crisis and to conversion of more and more arable land to monocrops, leading to the exhaustion of soil fertility and increasing reliance on expensive and hazardous syndietic fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides. |
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ISSN: | 0093-0334 1552-146X 1552-146X |
DOI: | 10.1353/hcr.0.0040 |