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Written by Ross Spencer
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Saturday, 15 October 2011 |
Are you part of the problem or part of the solution? Whether that question is posed during a community hearing, a business meeting or a family discussion, it often springs from a sense of exasperation in trying to comprehend why someone has acted in a certain way.
In the view of Deforestation Watch aka Melbourne Zoo Watch, there is hardly any doubt that the Melbourne Zoo, in running their “Don’t Palm Us Off” campaign has hardly contributed to finding a solution to a seemingly intractable problem: Balancing the need to preserve the environment against the legitimate aspirations of the peoples of Indonesia and Malaysia to exploit their own lands for industrial and agricultural purposes.
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Much as FIFA had the world of football collectively shaking their heads with disbelief and incredulity at the sheer scale of fraud, corruption and wrong doing going on within the supposed guardian of the game of soccer, the UNEP’s credibility is slowly going down the same slippery slope, except that in the UNEP’s case it is a case of an organization that recklessly publishes without fact checking the wild and unsubstantiated allegations of green groups on palm causing massive deforestation and thus threatening the extinction of orangutans.
