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Commercial and industrial scale biofuels and bioenergy are creating vast new demands for wood, and driving the conversion of climate stabilizing forests and other natural ecosystems to fuel crops. Rainforests in Indonesia are being burned to make way for plantations of oil palm, for example. Genetically engineering trees to be easier to manufacture into bioenergy will further contribute to the problem by increasing economic pressure to convert land into GE tree plantations. ienearth.org/genetically-engineering-poplars-for-paper-and-biofuels-condemned/
Posted on: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 12:45:36 +0000

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