Cengage Advantage Books: Sustaining the Earth 10th Edition by Tyler Miller,Scott Spoolman

Exercise 3

Do you think that growing oil palm trees in plantations to obtain biodiesel fuel to help cut dependence on oil and to cut vehicular CO 2 emissions is important enough to justify burning and clearing some rain forests? Why or why not? Can you think of alternatives to cutting trees that would provide biofuels? What are they?