https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_and_environmental_impact_of_palm_oil#Environmental_issues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_and_environmental_impac...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_and_environmental_impact_of_palm_oil#Environmental_issues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_and_environmental_impac... When you take flights over Southeast Asia, it’s quite a sad sight. It’s just endless palm plantations in what used to be pristine rainforest habitats. You can understand the perspectives of these third world countries because palm oil can bring in a lot of money to places that tend to be very poor, but from an environmental standpoint, palm plantations are a disaster. They’re destroying some of our most valuable carbon sinks to produce the stuff.