All Biofuels Are Not Created Equal by David Tilman and Jason Hill

“All Biofuels Are Not Created Equal” is a very informative article that everyone should be aware of. The authors of this article show how biofuels can be made to benefit Earth. Our ecological footprint is so big that everyone requires 2.5 Earths to maintain the same lifestyle. What does this reveal? It reveals that Earth’s resources are being diminished. This means that the world needs to do something to prevent this so Earth can last for future generations. The way that biofuels are being made is not very effective in helping this problem. This is because it either requires deforestation or the burning of fossil fuels, which the world is trying to stop. Instead of using corn or sugar cane as ethanol, alternative crops should be used because it will benefit our environment the most.

The authors of this article are David Tilman and Jason Hill. David Tilman is a Regents Professor and McKnight Presidential Professor of Ecology at the University of Minnesota. Tilman is interested in “the benefits that society receives from natural and managed ecosystems and in the ways to assure environmental and social sustainability in the face of global increases in human consumption and population.” He has also written many scholarly articles and books on resource and plant competition and on biofuels. Tilman is very knowledgeable in his field of study; therefore, we can most certainly take his word for everything he talks about in this article.

Jason Hill is an Assistant Professor in Bioproducts and Biosystems engineering. He is currently focusing his research on how the global biofuels industry will affect climate change, land use, biodiversity, and human well-being. Hill has also published his work on the life cycle impacts of transportation ...

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...effective in proving its point. It talks about everything, so that it doesn’t matter who reads it, they will understand what is happening. The authors talk about how biofuels are currently being made and how effective they are. They tell the readers the problems that these methods cause, and show the readers the solution. Using alternative crops to make biofuel will reduce the amount of fossil fuels that are being burnt which in turn will reduce our ecological footprint. Creation ethanol from corn or sugar cane helps the environment very little. Not only that, but it creates many other problems as mentioned before. From what we know so far, the alternative crops method for creating biofuels is the most efficient, and it is what everyone should be focusing on. This is a problem that affects everyone; therefore, this is a problem that everyone should be trying to fix.