The real problem with Palm Oil.
July 5, 2019
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In this Our Changing Climate environmental video essay, I look at the effects of palm oil on the environment and deforestation. Specifically, I look at how palm oil demand has caused a huge increase in oil palm plantations. As a result, producers clear-cut, log and burn peatlands and primary rainforests in order to make way for palm oil fields. By itself, palm oil is not necessarily a harmful product, but because palm oil is now in thousands of products, the rate at which it's being consumed has caused deforestation and environmental destruction on a large scale.
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1. The Devastating Effects Of The World's Palm Oil Addiction (Journeyman Pictures via YouTube)
2. Once a Dream Fuel, Palm Oil May Be an EcoNightmare (New York Times)
3. Which Everyday Products Contain Palm Oil? (WWF)
4. Why palm oil boycotts are not as helpful as they might seem (WWF)
5. The Palm Oil Global Value Chain (Pacheco et al.)
6. Environmental and Social Impacts of Oil Palm Plantations and their
Implications for Biofuel Production in Indonesia (Obidzinski et al.)
7. How palm oil ban has made the EU a dirty word in Malaysia (The Guardian)
8. Half of Indonesia’s deforestation occurs outside concession areas (Mongabay)
9. Two decades of destruction in Southeast Asia's peat swamp forests (Miettinen et al.)
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