Killing people with “concern”? Biofuels led to nearly 200,000 deaths (est) in 2010. « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

Killing people with “concern”? Biofuels led to nearly 200,000 deaths (est) in 2010. « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax: "The precautionary principle is exposed again for the insidious mindless posturing that it is.

Biofuel policies push more people into poverty as food prices rise and the poor are forced to spend more of their income on food. In a study  published in  Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, Indur Goklany calculated the additional mortality burden of biofuels policies and found that nearly 200,000 people died in 2010 alone, because of efforts to use biofuels to reduce CO2 emissions.

Bad Government is a killer."

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