Fresh thinking on ecosystems and sustainable practices prompts the question: is pushing back the desert worth cash? THERE IS A link between current fossilised fuel revenues (or lack of them), desertification, urban waste and biofuels. The real question, then, is how can this link be identified and turned into a business with real jobs, real income and, ultimately for governments, tax revenues. As the pressure in nice, middle-class Western society, formalised at the Bali environmental summit, increases its opposition to the chopping down of rain forests to make biofueis, the converse becomes more of an opportunity; to buy biofuels made from crops grown in arid climates and on desert soils. All oil and gas resources have a finite volume;
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