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Written by Ross Spencer   
Friday, 06 February 2009

Beware the unscrupulous “environmental” types riding the global warming bandwagon!

AL Gore sold his scary global warming film, An Inconvenient Truth, shown in almost every school in the USA and Europe, with a poster of a terrible hurricane.  Former US president Bill Clinton later gloated: "It is now generally recognized that while Al Gore and I were ridiculed, we were right about global warming...It's going to lead to more hurricanes."


In fact, there is still no proof of a link between any warming and hurricanes.

Last month researchers at Florida State University concluded that the 2007 and 2008 hurricane seasons had the least tropical activity in the Northern Hemisphere in 30 years.

So what do we make of “environmental” organizations bent on scaring the general populace to heed their predictions that the world faces imminent danger of self-destruction?

In the view of Deforestation Watch, such scaremongering by “environmental organizations” have to be treated with a modicum of caution for the simple reason that these organizations stand to gain financially, for such scare tactics have worked for them in the past and will continue to work in their favor by raking in public and private funding!  The fact that both these “environmental” organizations have been paid by competing oilseed lobbies to do the dirty work to stop the growth of palm oil cannot be discounted either.  It is elementary that any environmental organization with a financially vested interest in the outcome of any vironmental debate is suspect at best!

Perhaps that’s why “environmental” organizations like the grossly misnamed Friends of the Earth (FOE) and Greenpeace have been working overtime to try to scare the food and oleo-chemical industries to avoid palm oil on the wild and irrational grounds that palm oil is causing deforestation and thus contributing to global warming.

The problem with their contention is that they failed to take into account the incredible productivity of palm oil itself.  It is well established that one hectare of oil palm plantation yields more than 4.5 metric tons of oil.  This is more than 10 times the productivity of the competing oil seeds.  What this productivity translates into, even to a casual observer, is that palm oil requires 10 times LESS land to yield the same quantity of oil.  That explains why Malaysia is able to maintain such a high degree of forest cover (over 65%) despite being the world’s largest producer and despite more than a hundred years of oil palm cultivation.  In fact, Malaysia designates less than 25% of its total land Mass to agriculture.  Of this designated area, the total area planted with palm oil is less than 13.6% of the country’s total land mass of 33 million hectares.

So any reasonable person evaluating the facts can deduce that the accusations of FoE and Greenpeace that palm oil is causing massive deforestation is totally false and without and factual basis!

Finally, Deforestation Watch is compelled to ask whether the scatterbrained and unscientific approaches of Greenpeace and FoE to the putative problem are intellectually deficient, economically absurd and harmful or just morally misdirected.  It would be tragic if it were any of the above, but more than that it is imperative that we bear these in mind if we are not to cause irreparable harm to man and the planet in the process, through the misapplication and misdirection of scarce resources!  THE END.
Last Updated ( Saturday, 07 February 2009 )
 
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For closet environmentalists like me, the actions of Greenpeace and FOE on palm oil is truly pathetic! The media loves controversy no doubt, but for Greenpeace and FOE to come up with their dishonest and self serving anti-palm oil crap reeks of hypocrisy and worse, a serious dereliction of duty motivated by money!

Posted by Brioni Giovanni, on 02/12/2009 at 20:45

Greenpeace and FOE scatterbrained? I think that they're far smarter than the mafiosi. They've just found a plug (palm oil) that brings in the funds. Heck, grease their palms and they'd attack corn or air for all they care!

Posted by Pokerface, on 02/11/2009 at 23:15

Excellent article! Long overdue. Changing the way the environmental movement is viewed is definitely something that should have entered the eco-system narrative for some time now. I'd long suspected that something gives with the gross alarmism of Greenpeace, FOE and others.

Posted by Sam Michael, on 02/11/2009 at 23:04

At least this site allows comments. Greenpeace and FOE do not allow comments on their sites. Looks like they are great at stoning others, but not so hot when it comes to tolerating criticism.

Posted by Bouchon, on 02/11/2009 at 22:38

The folks at Greenpeace and FoE are no different from the cardsharps and conmen operating out of the seedy street-corners of the world. They have a scam that works - a ruse (this time it is palm oil)that brings in the bacon. The same modus operandi of the con artists of this world!

Posted by Candyzest, on 02/11/2009 at 22:31
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