Europe and the US could more than compensate for the loss of Ukraine's grain exports by diverting crops destined to be made into biofuels into food production instead.
“It’s profoundly immoral to try to solve a shortage of energy by creating a shortage of food,” says Brunner.
In general, fuel price rises affect those who can afford to drive cars and fly, whereas people with low incomes spend most of their money on food, he says. “You are taking food off the table of people in the slums of Cairo to subsidise rich people driving SUVs.” “It’s a question of what you care about most,” says Searchinger. Some proponents of bioenergy have argued that it provides a buffer that could be removed during food shortages, he says, and now is the time to use it.
“Even that signal of increased availability is going to have a disproportionately beneficial effect on prices,” says Hill. “You are going to reduce the potential for catastrophically large market responses.”
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