Re:A palm oil alternative could help save rainforests
by mangecoeur on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @04:27AM
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This point was also made in David Attenborough’s recent climate documentary: the point is not about palm oil but about rainforest protection. If there is no protection, and if people can’t make a living another way, the forest will be cut for whatever makes money. The most tragic example i’ve seen is rainforest turned into those wood chips they put around potted plants. Is that a high value commodity? No. But it makes >0 money and if the value given to the wild forest is zero, then it will happen.
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Re:A palm oil alternative could help save rainforests
by worldsayshi on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @05:21AM
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The solution should be fairly simple. Give wild forest a >0 value by paying people for keeping it wild.
I mean of course it's not a new idea and apparently it's very difficult in practice but it seems like the obvious response to that logic.
Re:A palm oil alternative could help save rainforests
by fakedang on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @12:20PM
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That would mean paying millions of "backwards" tribal communities millions and possibly billions of dollars which we can't afford (/s) - Governments everywhere
Unfortunately, unless they're a voting group the government can maintain control over, nothing will be done. On the contrary, we have government ministers and bureaucrats around the world likely engaging and actively playing a role in the deforestation of rainforests.