Fuelling the biofuels debate

With the biofuels sector attracting so much talk of silver bullets one might be forgiven for thinking that the Lone Ranger* had ridden back into town. While the Lone Ranger used silver bullets to remind himself how precious life was, and, like his bullets, should not be wasted, the term “silver bullet” more recently has come to mean an all encompassing and straightforward fix for a problem.

In particular it has become a pejorative term used by NGOs and environmental lobbyists to beat green technology developers with. Sadly it reduces what should be a reasonable, and important, conversation about the pros and cons of technology to the yah boo sucks level of playground rhetoric.

Take today’s (1st September) press release form Friends of the Earth; Geoengineering is no silver bullet says the headline. The release continues:

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