A child dies of malaria every 12 seconds, and that rate will rise sharply if DDT use is banned globally. By the time you read this, a decision may have been reached at the Geneva meeting of UN diplomats. Officials assure residents that only one mosquito in 1000 carries the virus, but advised wearing long sleeves and long pants. Yes, wood does burn and can keep you warm - sort of. Cow dung is a popular fuel in India.
Chicken manure is a dandy source of - manure.
The President said that the use of biomass energy will decrease the need for foreign-based oil. Spouting palpable nonsense, the Order calls for tripling the percentage of bioenergy in the US energy supply by 2010. Officials are claiming, rather incongruously, that emissions would be reduced by the equivalent of taking 70 million cars off the road. Unfortunately, they tend to ignore the fertilizer, the harvesting, the energy required to transport the materials to the distillation plant, and the energy needed for the distilling process itself. Traffic congestion would still be with us, and the pollution would smell of formaldehyde.