Brazil hopes to supply drivers worldwide with the fuel of the future -- cheap ethanol derived from sugarcane. It is considered an effective antidote to climate change, but hundreds of thousands of Brazilian plantation workers harvest the cane at slave wages.... Read more at Truthout [via PW].

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Posted on 25 January, 2009 - 19:11

Here's a story well worth reading, one that gives the lie to the 'biofuels boom' promoted by, among others, The World Bank as a balm to poverty. As if further evidence were needed.

Brazil's ethanol slaves: 200,000 migrant sugar cutters who prop up renewable energy boom

Tom Phillips in Palmares Paulista
Friday March 9, 2007
The Guardian ... read more »

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Posted on 23 April, 2007 - 21:20