With the mad rush to produce eco-friendly fuel, men are steadily converting vast areas of forests into soybean and oil palm fields. Take the Amazon forest in Brazil for instance. As one of the largest storehouse of carbon, Brazil now ranks fourth in the world in carbon emissions, and most of its emissions come from deforestation.

An explosion in demand for farm-grown fuels has raised global crop prices to records highs, which is spurring a dramatic expansion of Brazilian agriculture, which is invading the Amazon at an alarming rate.

So the questions remains: To biofuel or not to biofuel? Are we shooting ourselves in the foot with this new technology?

Source: The Independent (www.independent.co.uk).

To read on more on "The Clean Energy Scam", follow Time.com's writer, Michale Grunwald as he explores the whole issue on clearing land to meet biofuel demands and its impact on global warming, communities and businesses.

The Independent has also conducted a review on biofuels written by Cahal Milmo. Check out their article "BioFuel: The Burning Question" here.