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Politics : Manmade Global Warming, A hoax? A Scam? or a Doomsday Cult? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (2582)	6/2/2011 7:45:26 PM
From: FJB	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4326

RE:upon those corporations who facilitate the exploitation and destruction of rain forest (like palm oil consumers who incenitivize the destruction of rain forest in Indonesia.. etc) That was the enviro-morons like Gore et. al. that advocated for biofuels based on palm oil. Because oil is evil. Palm oil: the biofuel of the future driving an ecological disaster now Ian MacKinnon in Kalimantan The Guardian, Wednesday 4 April 2007 The estimated emissions from fires in degraded peatlands in Indonesia are 1,400m tonnes of carbon dioxide per annum and not, as we stated in the article below, 1,400 tonnes. This has been corrected. The numbers are damning. Within 15 years 98% of the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia will be gone, little more than a footnote in history. With them will disappear some of the world's most important wildlife species, victims of the rapacious destruction of their habitat in what conservationists see as a lost cause. Yet this gloomy script was supposed to have included a small but significant glimmer of hope.<span style='font-size:20px;color:blue'> Oil palm for biofuel was to have been one of the best solutions in saving the planet from greenhouse gases and global warming. Instead the forests are being torn down in the headlong rush to boost palm oil production.</span> More startling is that conservationists believe the move to clear land for this "green fuel" is often little more than a conspiracy, providing cover to strip out the last stands of timber... guardian.co.uk Once a Dream Fuel, Palm Oil May Be an Eco-Nightmare By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL Published: January 31, 2007 AMSTERDAM, Jan. 25 — Just a few years ago, politicians and environmental groups in the Netherlands were thrilled by the early and rapid adoption of “sustainable energy,” achieved in part by coaxing electrical plants to use biofuel — in particular, palm oil from Southeast Asia. nytimes.com