This poster is my submission for the 2010 Justseeds Resourced portfolio. While traveling in Indonesia, I was reminded again of just how destructive the drive to generate plant-based fuels can be: Indonesia and Malaysia have lost staggering amounts of their primary forest to monocrop oil palm plantations. These sterile wastelands replace some of the worlds most biodiverse environments, forests supporting hornbills, orangutans, gibbons, and the occasional tiger. Burning forests to clear them for plantation regularly covers Asia with a thick blanket of smoke. This system has conquered the Tropics, moving beyond Asia and Africa to South and Central America, bringing ecological apocalypse with it. Other biofuel crops, such as Jatropha, are similarly destructive- they're all grown in large-scale monocultures that eliminate real forests, and as such cause massive collapse of natural systems, with extinctions following in their wake. There is nothing "green" about this process. There can be no "Green" consumer society.
4-color Silkscreen print, cut from rubylith.