Bioenergy – A Disaster for Biodiversity, Health and Human Rights

By Rachel Smolker, originally published by Post Carbon Institute/Foundation for Deep Ecology

October 11, 2013

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This essay comes from the book ENERGY: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth Published by the Foundation for Deep Ecology in collaboration with Watershed Media and Post Carbon Institute.

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