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For a critique of biofuels on the grounds of their poor rate of Energy Return On Energy Invested (EROEI) see, for instance, David Pimentel and Tad W. Patzek, “Ethanol Production Using Corn, Switchgrass, and Wood: Biodiesel Production Using Soybean and Sunflower”, Natural Resources Research, 14, 1, March 2005, pp 65–76; and David Pimentel, Tad Patzek and Gerald Cecil, “Ethanol Production: Energy, Economic and Environmental Losses”, Review of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 189, 2007 pp 25–41. For a reply to the critique, see National Biodiesel Board, “Response to David Pimentel Biodiesel Life Cycle Analysis”, July 2005 available at http://tinyurl.com/or624r7 . For an overview of the debate, see Frank Rosillo-Calle and Francis X. Johnson (2010), Food versus Fuel, An Informed Introduction to Biofuels.

David Fleming
Dr David Fleming (2 January 1940 – 29 November 2010) was a cultural historian and economist, based in London, England. He was among the first to reveal the possibility of peak oil's approach and invented the influential TEQs scheme, designed to address this and climate change. He was also a pioneer of post-growth economics, and a significant figure in the development of the UK Green Party, the Transition Towns movement and the New Economics Foundation, as well as a Chairman of the Soil Association. His wide-ranging independent analysis culminated in two critically acclaimed books, 'Lean Logic' and 'Surviving the Future', published posthumously in 2016. These in turn inspired the 2020 launches of both BAFTA-winning director Peter Armstrong's feature film about Fleming's perspective and legacy - 'The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation?' - and Sterling College's unique 'Surviving the Future: Conversations for Our Time' online courses. For more information on all of the above, including Lean Logic, click the little globe below!

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