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In this Our Changing Climate environmental video essay, I look at the effects of palm oil on the environment and deforestation. Specifically, I look at how palm oil demand has caused a huge increase in oil palm plantations. As a result, producers clear-cut, log and burn peatlands and primary rainforests in order to make way for palm oil fields. By itself, palm oil is not necessarily a harmful product, but because palm oil is now in thousands of products, the rate at which it's being consumed has caused deforestation and environmental destruction on a large scale.
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Resources:
1. The Devastating Effects Of The World's Palm Oil Addiction (Journeyman Pictures via KZfaq): • The Devastating Effect...
2. Once a Dream Fuel, Palm Oil May Be an Eco-Nightmare (New York Times): www.nytimes.co...
3. Which Everyday Products Contain Palm Oil? (WWF): www.worldwildl...
4. Why palm oil boycotts are not as helpful as they might seem (WWF): d2ouvy59p0dg6k....
5. The Palm Oil Global Value Chain (Pacheco et al.): www.cifor.org/p...
6. Environmental and Social Impacts of Oil Palm Plantations and their
Implications for Biofuel Production in Indonesia (Obidzinski et al.): www.cifor.org/p...
7. How palm oil ban has made the EU a dirty word in Malaysia (The Guardian): www.theguardia...
8. Half of Indonesia’s deforestation occurs outside concession areas (Mongabay): news.mongabay....
9. Two decades of destruction in Southeast Asia's peat swamp forests (Miettinen et al.): esajournals.on...