Here's a story well worth reading, one that gives the lie to the 'biofuels boom' promoted by, among others, The World Bank as a balm to poverty. As if further evidence were needed.

Brazil's ethanol slaves: 200,000 migrant sugar cutters who prop up renewable energy boom

Tom Phillips in Palmares Paulista
Friday March 9, 2007
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Posted on 23 April, 2007 - 21:20