Random Thoughts From Marybeth

Cut Pollution at Home by Cutting Down Rainforests Abroad

THE drive for "green energy" in the developed world is having the perverse effect of encouraging the destruction of tropical rainforests. From the orang-utan reserves of Borneo to the Brazilian Amazon, virgin forest is being razed to grow palm oil and soybeans to fuel cars and power stations in Europe and North America. And surging prices are likely to accelerate the destruction.

Now I'm just waiting for the biofuel companies to get the same kind of public scorn that the petroleum companies have.

Still waiting.

I think I'll take up a hobby to pass the time while I wait. Maybe I'll build a full-scale model of the Eiffel Tower. Out of toothpicks. That I carve myself. I bet I'd get more complaints about my destruction of trees than the biofuel companies do.