Biofuels and oil
As mentioned earlier, British environmental campaigner and journalist, George Monbiot, has argued that producing sustainable biofuels without adding to net carbon emissions is not possible. He argues for a reduction in the world’s consumption of oil for transport, claiming that:
“All these convoluted solutions are designed to avoid a simpler one: reducing the consumption of transport fuel. But that requires the use of a different commodity. Global supplies of political courage appear, unfortunately, to have peaked some time ago.”
Once again a biological argument becomes a moral one. Because they require a change in human nature, moral arguments are not going to win against climate change; nor should they, indeed, as we have argued before.