In this work I outline the rational, science-based arguments that question current wisdom of replacing fossil plant fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) with fresh plant agrofuels. This 1:1 replacement is absolutely impossible for more than a few years, because of the ways the planet Earth works and maintains life. After these few years, the denuded Earth will be a different planet, hostile to human life. I argue that with the current set of objective constraints a continuous stable solution to human life cannot exist in the near-future, unless we all rapidly implement much more limited ways of using the Earth's resources, while reducing the global populations of cars, trucks, livestock and, eventually, also humans. © 2008 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
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Patzek, T. W. (2008). Can the earth deliver the biomass-for-fuel we demand? In Biofuels, Solar and Wind as Renewable Energy Systems: Benefits and Risks (pp. 19–55). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8654-0_2
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