Every once in a while, the toxic weed jatropha pops up on my radar screen. Last year, it was as a balm for desperate poverty; now it’s being touted as the jet fuel of tomorrow.
Color me the deepest shade of skeptical. And for God’s sake, don’t eat the stuff.
Back on the Scene // Oct 5, 2009 at 9:33 am
[…] bone-dry brush. This Time dispatch blames the severity of the drought’s impact in part on a jatropha fad. Our sense, however, is that government incompetence is more to blame—it seems no Kenyans […]