“Commercial Pressures on Land and Their Impact on Child Rights: A review of the literature” (http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/667)

For further information please contact the author (Ms B Moulat).

And it’s not as if most biofuels have any useful effect either – for corn-ethanol, energy expended roughly equals energy gained; jatropha yields are dismally low.

Biofuels are never going to have a positive effect on climate change – they have been an unmitigated disaster (pun intended).

It’s been a disaster for science too – very few scientists have adopted a refutational (Popperian) position. Most are desperately trying to show it can work and not quesioning basic assumptions.