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Peatlands hold up to 28 times as much carbon as rainforests growing on mineral soil. The peat is so carbon rich that if it is buried long enough, say for a million years or so, pressure, time and heat will turn it into coal. A single hectare of peatland rainforest can release 6,000 metric tons of planet-warming carbon dioxide when it’s converted into a plantation. Researchers estimated that in 2012 nearly 70% of the carbon released during the transformation of Sumatran rainforests into palm plantations came from peatlands, a 75% increase over their portion of emissions in the 1990s and an indication that palm is increasingly expanding into peat.
In 2006 US food labels, under mandate from the Food and Drug Administration, began listing “trans fats” because they increase risk of heart disease. That led to a rapid increase in the use of tropical oils that aren’t trans fats, particularly palm. The television physician Dr. Oz promoted palm oil’s benefits to the heart and brain, helping drive a sixfold increase in consumption in the United States since 2000.
In Europe, efforts to avoid genetically modified foods pushed palm, which is so bountiful it hasn’t yet drawn much interest from genetic tinkerers. In China and India, the growing middle classes’ hunger for high-grade food oils can currently be satisfied only by palm.
The boom is fueled by what we drive, too. The increasing interest in biofuels is replacing the environmental damage associated with crude oil with the devastation palm production inflicts on tropical forests and the climate.
ATS and entire species are said to be wiped out as soon as 2020 due to the effects of Palm Oil production
originally posted by: St Udio
originally posted by: gortex
a reply to: lostbook
unfortunately money talks and ......
PROFITS above sustainability or rational thinking (i.e.: Greed)
the bane of capitalism...predatory capitalism with a slash-burn/Shermans' March operating business model geared to immediate "profits uber alles"
originally posted by: ScientiaFortisDefendit
a reply to: lostbook
Aren't there like 50 alternatives for palm oil, at least in food production? It's one of the worst oils to use in food anyway.
Solazyme, a California company, uses microalgae to produce oils for biodiesel that have already powered United Airlines jets and US Navy ships. It’s expanded into oils for soaps, cosmetics and foods, which have higher profit margins than fuels. Last year consumer products powerhouse Unilever announced plans to use 3 million gallons of Solazyme’s algal oil instead of palm in an effort to lower its environmental impact.
originally posted by: lostbook
Who'd think that something as harmless as Palm Oil is contributing to our own destruction...? This is really bad, ATS and entire species are said to be wiped out as soon as 2020 due to the effects of Palm Oil production...The affects can already be felt due to the pollutuion caused by the burning of peat to make room for plants which process the oil.
Peat-swampy layers of partially decayed vegetation that spreads up to 60 feet deep beneath most of the province’s forests.
Peatlands hold up to 28 times as much carbon as rainforests growing on mineral soil. The peat is so carbon rich that if it is buried long enough, say for a million years or so, pressure, time and heat will turn it into coal. A single hectare of peatland rainforest can release 6,000 metric tons of planet-warming carbon dioxide when it’s converted into a plantation. Researchers estimated that in 2012 nearly 70% of the carbon released during the transformation of Sumatran rainforests into palm plantations came from peatlands, a 75% increase over their portion of emissions in the 1990s and an indication that palm is increasingly expanding into peat.
"Palm oil—which appears in a dizzying amount of food and cosmetic products and is a feedstock for biofuel—poses many environmental problems. It’s the largest driver of Indonesian deforestation, which destroys habitat and contributes to climate change. And ponds of wastewater at palm oil refineries release immense amounts of methane, a greenhouse gas 34 times more potent than carbon dioxide."
In 2006 US food labels, under mandate from the Food and Drug Administration, began listing “trans fats” because they increase risk of heart disease. That led to a rapid increase in the use of tropical oils that aren’t trans fats, particularly palm. The television physician Dr. Oz promoted palm oil’s benefits to the heart and brain, helping drive a sixfold increase in consumption in the United States since 2000.
In Europe, efforts to avoid genetically modified foods pushed palm, which is so bountiful it hasn’t yet drawn much interest from genetic tinkerers. In China and India, the growing middle classes’ hunger for high-grade food oils can currently be satisfied only by palm.
The boom is fueled by what we drive, too. The increasing interest in biofuels is replacing the environmental damage associated with crude oil with the devastation palm production inflicts on tropical forests and the climate.
Wow! I didn't know it was this bad. Are we humans bent on our own destruction? What says ATS?
qz.com...
originally posted by: deadeyedick
a reply to: lostbook
I read twice. Can you tell me how palm is so bad and how will it kill us in 2020. I do not buy greenhouse gas crap and fail to see how palm is evil. i say bs
Reduced biodiversity in plantations. For example, nearly 80 mammal species are found in Malaysia's primary forests. In contrast, disturbed forests have just over 30 mammal species, while oil palm plantations have only 11 or 12 (Wakker 1998, in Clay (2004) "World Agriculture & Environment"). Similar species reductions occur for insects, birds, reptiles and soil microorganisms.
originally posted by: deadeyedick
a reply to: lostbook
I read twice. Can you tell me how palm is so bad and how will it kill us in 2020. I do not buy greenhouse gas crap and fail to see how palm is evil. i say bs
originally posted by: deadeyedick
a reply to: ElectricUniverse
I fully agree with you but i also meditate on things that stand out to me like this. What i have found spiritually is something i can not ignore. There is truth to this thread but it does not come to us by way of co2 and deforestation. We will hear from the big man upstairs on this one because the palm oil does come with strong dangers to our planet but the truth will not be accepted without intervention. Just as the electric universe theory is rejected this will be too but that does not chang the implications here. We would have to understand and accept that the earth is a person to grasp how this oil would stop the earth soon.We would have to know our true relationship with this being we live on to get it.
I will try to explain. The earth is a person on a planet like ours that started spinning so fast that he basically stopped time around him and when he started spinning he was tattoed by a higher power. The tatoo is a set of 12 or 13 marks on his spine and they are called the devils graveyard and we have mapped them. Hitler and others have tried to erease them but were killed for it. All excess co2 just goes out of our atmosphere and amounts to not much at all on the other planet. The palm oil is being used to interfere with the signals being recieved by the tatoos. This is done by feeding it to us and we are all different cells in organs of his body. If you study palm oil you may find that it has properties that go beyond our realm here and has been used by cultures such as islanders in spiritual rituals. There are beings trying to wake up the man in the earth. No one will believe what i type and it is easier to just state what is in the op. We will see intervention on this one...