Indonesian Rainforest burnt for Palm Oil Plantation

Forests are burned on plantations in Indonesia to clear land to produce
palm oil which is a key ingredient in biodiesel and many western foods.

The costs of environmental damage such as rainforest destruction and
the loss of biodiversity, but also health damage of people through the
massive application of agricultural poisons don’t flow into the price
of palmoil – or it would be so high as to be uncompetitive.

The claimed CO2 neutrality of palmoil energy is pure wishful
thinking of the advocates, as many scientific studies now document.

“The growing of energy-yielding plants has nothing to do with climate
protection. Rather, it leads into an ecological crisis and serves the
interests of the agrarian lobby which hopes that this will make it
hugely rich,” commented Professor Dr. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker in
mid-September 2007.