Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Dead Zone
The dead zone off the coast of Louisiana, the second largest in the world, is the result of nitrates leaching from the homogenized landscape of the Midwest. With industrial-scale corn production set to triple by 2020 under the renewable fuels standard passed by Congress, the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico will grow. In perhaps one of the cruelest of ironies, the ethanol hoax that consumes two-thirds of federal subsidies for renewable fuels is wiping out efforts aimed at conservation.
