A "Green Tsunami" in Brazil: The High Price of Clean, Cheap Ethanol

A "Green Tsunami" in Brazil: The High Price of Clean, Cheap Ethanol

http://www.truthout.org/012409C

Clemens Hoges, Der Spiegel: "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. In the middle of the night, the plantations around Aracoiaba in Brazil's ethanol zone are on fire. The area looks like a war zone during the sugarcane harvest, as the burning fields light up the sky and the wind carries clouds of smoke across the countryside."