We can still save the planet
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Considering the rate at which we are decimating the lungs of this planet through deforestation and the resultant annihilation of entire ecosystems, and the rate at which we are pumping greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, it seems humanity is actually bent on self destruction.

Add to this the US sabotage of world initiatives to reduce emissions and foster a greener approach, almost unanimously agreed to at the Paris conference, aside from a particular US political party and it becomes clear that we are not only fighting a losing battle but we have extremely powerful opponents preventing progress.

![enter image description here](http://www.sciencealert.com/images/articles/processed/pollution-smoke_1024.jpg)

While we have had almost negligible success in efforts to overt the impending disaster, if we look at new technologies which will alleviate the pressure by tuning the offending substance into a fuel source, we might just have a chance at bypassing the need for unanimity among groups which don't seem to have humanity's interest sufficiently prioritised.

**A new discovery**

A newly discovered process by which CO2 is converted into ethanol, is an excellent short term solution if we can get it moving fast enough.

This new process was discovered accidentally and promises to turn our most prolific and dangerous(for the planet) waste into fuel. 

If this ethanol from CO2 process can be adequately funded and fast tracked, we who facilitate such expedition would literally be saviours of the world.

Those who have means, those who have power and those who have influence should all take heed and initiative and make it happen and the rest of us should sustain.

 [Ethanol from CO2 article ](http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-just-accidentally-discovered-a-process-that-turns-co2-directly-into-ethanol?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Branded%20Content&utm_campaign=ScienceDump)
 
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 **Amazing Fuel from Waste successes already in use**    [TED Talk - Amy Smith of MIT](https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_smith_shares_simple_lifesaving_design)

The idea of turning waste into fuel is of course not new and we have had excellent ideas come from MIT's [Amy Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_B._Smith) of [D-Lab](http://d-lab.mit.edu/staff/amy_smith), who has managed to turn corn cobs into a fuel source for rural Africa in Ghana, sugar cane [Bagasse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagasse) into a low emissions, high output fuel source in Haiti  and a similar product from agricultural waste in India.

[Africa ](http://www.worldwidehelpers.org/wwhweb/uploads/files/Fuel%20from%20the%20Fields-%20Charcoal%20from%20Agricultural%20Waste.pdf)- Biomass Fuel from Corn Cobs

![Fuel from Corn Cobs](https://wiki.duke.edu/download/thumbnails/5540832/IMG_1736%20%28Large%29.JPG?version=1&modificationDate=1233202483000&api=v2)

[Canecoal](http://stoves.bioenergylists.org/taxonomy/term/751)  - from D-Lab at MIT and Haiti

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Sources to be found in embedded links