Biofuel Gone Bad: Burma's Atrophying Jatropha


By TIME Staff Friday, Mar. 13, 2009

My friend in Rangoon is a busy man. He manages a couple of companies in Burma's
commercial capital, helps raise his children and regularly makes merit at a
Buddhist temple. He also spends time tending to a plant that he knows is only
grown to die. In Dec. 2005, Burma's economically inept junta â€" one of its
leaders once decided to denominate the national currency by multiples of nine
because he liked the number â€" decided that the country's future lay in a shrub
called jatropha.

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