Palm Oil Quotes

• Deforestation for palm-oil production also contributes significantly to climate change. The removal of the native forests often involves the burning of timber and remaining forest undergrowth, emitting immense quantities of smoke into the atmosphere.

  Katie Cleary

  Oil, Atmosphere, Climate

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• The simple fact is that the world is not paying for the services the forests provide. At the moment, they are worth more dead than alive-for soya, for beef, for palm oil and for logging, feeding the demand from other countries. ... I think we need to be clear that the drivers of rainforest destruction do not originate in the rainforest nations, but in the more developed countries which, unwittingly or not, have caused climate change.

  Prince Charles

  Country, Science, Simple

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• Yo marcaría la diferencia prohibiendo el aceite de palma insostenible para salvar la selva tropical y los hábitats de los orangutanes junto con el resto de las otras trescientas mil especies que viven en la selva tropical.

  Katie Cleary

  Orden, Aceite, Diferencias

  "Katie Cleary, Presidenta y Fundadora de Peace 4 Animals: Get Proactive!". Entrevista con Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.

  Chinua Achebe

  Art, Oil, Conversation

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Sep 05, 2014

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• Note even Jonathan Swift would dare to write a satire in which politicians argued that - in a world where species are vanishing and more than a billion people are barely able to afford to eat - it would somehow be good for the planet to clear rain-forests to grow palm oil, or give up food-crop land to grow biofuels, solely so that people could burn fuel derived from carbohydrate rather than hydrocarbons in their cars, thus driving up the price of food for the poor. Ludicrous is too weak a word for this heinous crime.

  Matt Ridley

  Giving Up, Rain, Writing

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