Comments on: Is That a Rain Forest in Your Gas Tank?

By: Burton Haynes

Burton Haynes — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 19:12:30 +0000

Love his work

By: Douglas Watts

Douglas Watts — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:46:34 +0000

Yay capitalism and the invisible hand.

We live in the best of all possible worlds.

By: Uncle Al

Uncle Al — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:17:59 +0000

If all 51,843 square miles of Louisiana were filled, graded, and planted with oil palm, 635 gal/acre mean biodiesel production, 5% of America’s diesel appetite would be quenched. W’re talking 2.1 billion gal/year biodiesel repalcing a few baskets of crawfish poppers. Small loss, big gain, do it.

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By: Orangutan Outreach

Orangutan Outreach — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:09:17 +0000

Around 90% of the global supply of palm oil comes from Indonesia and Malaysia, and this has come at a tremendous cost. The forests of Borneo and Sumatra are being burned to the ground– releasing so much carbon into the atmosphere that Indonesia now ranks only behind China and US in carbon emissions– and it is barely industrialized. The UNEP estimates that the forests of Indonesia are being cleared at a rate of 6 football fields per minute every minute of every day.

The palm oil industry is guilty of the most heinous ecological atrocities imaginable, including the systematic genocide of orangutans. The forests of Borneo and Sumatra are the only place where these gentle, intelligent creatures live, and the cultivation of palm oil has directly led to the brutal deaths of thousands of individuals as the industry has expanded into previously undisturbed areas of rainforest.

When the forest is cleared, adult orangutans are typically shot on sight. These peaceful, sentient beings are beaten, burned, mutilated, tortured and often eaten. Babies are torn off their dying mothers so they can be sold on the black market as illegal pets to wealthy families who see them as status symbols of their own power and prestige. This has been documented time and again.

If nothing is done to protect orangutans, they will be extinct in just a few years. Visit the Orangutan Outreach website to learn more: http://www.redapes.org

Thank you for your support. {:(|}

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