Biofuels and the globalization of risk : the biggest change in the North-South releationships since colonialism? / James Smith.

An analysis of the politics and policies behind the biofuels story, with its technological optimism and often-idealized promises for the future. This critique argues that investment in biofuels may reconfigure risk and responsibility, whereby the global South is encouraged to invest its future in growing biofuel crops, often at the expense of food, in order that the global North may continue its unsustainable energy consumption unabated and guilt-free.