When renewable energy isn't renewable

The only way we can overcome our dependence on the rapidly diminishing oil supply is to change our life styles. Peak Energy has an example of the insane attempts to avoid life style changes and the very undesirable consequences.

From Rainforest To Biodiesel

The Herald has an article today about the accelerating destruction of the Brazilian rainforest, which is apparently being turned into soy bean farms. This soy is then being used to create biodiesel. So that means we're chopping down one of the last remaining buffers against runaway global warming to create biofuels. While I like biofuels in theory, in this case I have to ask if biofuels are really renewable if the end result of clearing all the forests is drought and desertification ?

There is more so check out the entire post.