Swaziland's Trade of Biofuel: A Crime Against Humanity
- Swaziland, a country facing acute food shortages, has decided to export biofuel made from one of its staple crops, cassava, while receiving emergency food aid.
- This trade has been described as 'a crime against humanity' by the UN's special rapporteur, Jean Ziegler.
- The superior purchasing power of drivers in the rich world means that using biofuel made from food crops will result in people starving.
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下の英文の訳が上手くできず、行き詰ってます。分かる方よろしくお願いします。 It doesn't get madder than this. Swaziland is in the grip of a famine and receiving emergency food aid. Forty per cent of its people are facing acute food shortages. So what has the government decided to export? Biofuel made from one of its staple crops, cassava. The government has allocated several thousand hectares of farmland to ethanol production in the district of Lavumisa, which happens to be the place worst hit by drought. It would surely be quicker and more humane to refine the Swazi people and put them in our tanks. Doubtless a team of development consultants is already doing the sums. This is one of many examples of a trade that was described last month by Jean Ziegler, the UN's special rapporteur, as "a crime against humanity". Ziegler took up the call first made by this column for a five-year moratorium on all government targets and incentives for biofuel: the trade should be frozen until second-generation fuels - made from wood or straw or waste - become commercially available. Otherwise, the superior purchasing power of drivers in the rich world means that they will snatch food from people's mouths. Run your car on virgin biofuel, and other people will starve.
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これより気狂いじみた話があろうか。スワジランドは飢饉に見舞われ、緊急の食料供給を受けている。国民の４０％は厳しい食料不足に直面している。 この時に政府は一体何を輸出しているとお思いだろうか。主要食料の一つ、カサバを原料とするバイオ（生物）燃料なのだ。 政府は、旱魃で最も大きな被害を受けたラブミサ地域で、エタノール生産のために数千ヘクタールを指定したのだ。 いっその事スワジランド国民を精製して我々の貯蔵タンクに入れたほうが、迅速で人道的である。開発コンサルタントたちには、もうこれは計算済みなのに違いない。 以上は、先月国連特別れポーターのジーン・ジーグラーが、「人類に対する犯罪」として書いた多くの貿易例の一つである。 ジーグラーは、本欄が最初に提唱した、政府の目標全て、および木材、藁類、廃棄物、からなる第二世代燃料が商業的に可能な時まで貿易を凍結する、バイオ燃料企画の五年間モラトリアムに応じてのである。 でなければ、富裕な世界を動かしている優勢な購買力によって、人々の口から食べ物を奪い去ることを意味するからである。 あなたの自動車を純真無垢のバイオ燃料で走らせると、餓死する人が出るのだ。
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