everyone does what he wants at home ... the american massacre some area for shale oil ... else massacre their forest for palm oil ... if it is not us who will buy it will be other and it will not change anything ... so buy it if it can help us ... it is not by refusing to buy that we will help them because they will sell to other palm oil producers massacre their country ... it's their business
this was true when nations were doing navel-gazing. This changed with the realization that this land was not the property of anyone in particular, but to all the living forms that inhabit it. Global warming, for the part that concerns human responsibility, impacts the entire earth and makes each of us a co-responsible for what happens, including for palm oil, shale gas, CO2 or nuclear bomb .
the main question is to use our soil well! if you do not grow rapeseed to make fuel oil you can grow everything you want by choosing the best crop
Same thing ! Our soil to us! (double repetition) is only a simple view of the mind, a utopia ... warlike, conquering, capitalistic and selfish. It's the counterpart of MY wife, MY husband, MY children, MY car, My house? MY job, my money, etc ... We are no longer citizens of a small piece of land, but citizens of the world
... it is not by refusing to buy that we will help them since they will sell to other palm oil producers slaughter their country ... it's their business.
This is usually what predators do by taking their victims by the throat. It was not in their culture to produce this oil in such a quantity, and the "owners" are more rarely the natives, but Americans, Chinese and other economic systems who prefer that it is the others who, in the long run, ruin themselves. rather than themselves. When these countries are no longer able to produce at low cost, they will remove their marbles leaving corpses behind them indifferently.
But here too, there is complete hypocrisy! By fixing the public's attention on this production, it allows to hide, by this tree, the deforestation to cultivate other, much more important, goods destined for animal food to fill the selfish stomachs of the American, European and other haves. .
"Let's not import agriculture".
This claim would be valid if the policy of our country did not incite, precisely, the export of our productions, cereals in particular as our technologies elsewhere.
"We make science with facts, like making a house with stones: but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a pile of stones is a house" Henri Poincaré