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I met someone who works with palm oil farmers to try and reduce deforestation. The main problem he encounters is that farmers have no other way of making money. Many of them point out that Britain, and most of Europe, has been totally deforested for farming, and now we complain about developing countries doing the exact same thing.
William.
Complaining about this is pretty pointless. What are you going to do, create a parallel version of farming where we don’t use oil? Ok pal. Or I suppose if we all stop buying palm oil then the people in the poor countries can starve AND have fucked up ecosystems. Yay?