EU Bans Subsidies on Palm Oil as a Biofuel

[DrDoomz]

JRPGfan said:

DrDoomz said:

I think it's a matter of alternatives. Coal and fossil fuel is seen as much more destructive and at the very least biofuel crops like Palm oil soak up CO2.

But haveing rainforrest soaks up many times more CO2 than chopping it down, and then planting palm oil trees.
These people out of greed, have reduced the rainforrests so much already.

The future is electric or "fuel cell" technologies.
not bio fuels.

I cant imagine a future with mass adoption of cars running on Palm oil..... I suspect theres even better alternatives in bio fuels, than palm oils tbh.
But Electric or Fuel cell, is gonna win out in the end.

I don't think it is all about greed. Again, I know people in the industry. The actual growers. Farmers who make their living growing Oil Palm to support and feed their families. It is like saying "hey, maybe you should find a better job" when you've been doing the same job for 20 years (and have managed to make a decent living from it). This is not greed, this is necessity. Most processing facilities (where the Palm Oil crop is taken and sold to) invest heavily in the planting and growing of the crop but the ownership/management of the land itself is left to the individual growers.

I personally know several growers (people I met thru my travels), they are not greedy people, they are simple people just trying to get by.

We're talking entire third world countries whose economies or large chunks of it are entirely dependent on this crop that the (until recently) first world economies encouraged them to stake their livelihoods on (essentially by buying and demanding the crop).