The cost of being “GREEN”

The words “clean and green energy”, “global warming” and “recycling” are certainly creating a buzz recently. The effect was also heightened by the unusual bouts of weather we are facing currently, for example droughts and then floods and I swear I do not need to go to the Antarctica or the Artic to see the effects of global warming … I can feel in in my everyday life. The difference in temperature has never felt so great between an air conditioned office and the open air car park. It never felt that hot during this period of the year and I do not remember getting sun burnt just by walking under the sun for an hour.

 

The earth is slowing changing…. Paranoid you might say but it is true … you can see it with your own eyes…. And in my humble opinion it is due to the human race using too much of a certain resource, causing imbalance in the whole eco system. Humans are like parasites, they multiply fast, used up a lot of resources and lay waste to the places they occupy.

 

Thus the need for cleaner energy . Something that gives off less carbon dioxide when consumed. Something that is renewable. And in comes vegetable oil, in the form of peanut, corn, plam tree, sugar beet and many many more. Clean and green these alternative sources of fuel may be … but what are the cost to the environment? Big areas of primary and secondary forest and perhaps swaps are being cleared for the production of these so called clean and green and renewable energy source …but did any one notice the cost?

 

The forest and swamps absorb carbon dioxide, the trees in their natural photosynthesis releases oxygen and you are clearing all of it away just to build something that gives off lesser CO2 … for some one who did the benefits and cost analysis … I am sure this had never some into the picture … perhaps all that the decision maker sees is just dollars and cents and GDP.