Biofuels - An approach from a distributive justice perspective

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - Environmental Policy, grade: 1,0, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg (Institut für Politikwissenschaft), course: International Ethics - Concepts, Theories and Cases, language: English, abstract: There is a common agreement that the emissions generated by the systematic use of fossil resources (overall petroleum, gas, and coal) are the main protagonist of a horror story. The problem is that one of these resources, oil, is a finite resource which is considered to be “the lifeblood on which the global economy depends” (Oxfam 2008: 5).That is, the main cause of the current climate crisis is simultaneously a factor that awakens massive concerns given its imminent depletion (BUND et al. 2008: 44).In light of this situation, the biofuels produced from biomass of renewable resources are presented as the answer to the crises above mentioned. However, after some time the “dark side” of the current biofuels policy has been more evident...