Thursday, December 20, 2018

Exposé on palm oil

A long time ago I shared an article about palm oil production in Colombia.  Here is a much more in-depth article about the effects of clearing forest for oil palm plantations in Indonesia and elsewhere in the world.  It is a sobering lesson in how technocratic fixes to one environmental problem can lead to a different, even worse problem, if not thought through carefully.

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