Via a bad article with a good point from the
current issue of
American Spectator
:
Matt Ridley makes the argument cogently in his book The Rational Optimist
: "Roughly 5% of the world's crop land has been taken out of growing food and put into growing fuel (20% in the United States)...Not even Jonathan Swift would dare to write a satire in which politicians argued that...it would somehow be good for the planet...to give up food-crop land to grow biofuels...thus driving up the price of food for the poor [who] spend 70% of their incomes on food.