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policymakers are considering language that would specifically allow use of biofuels produced via conversion of rainforests to oil palm plantations

The leaked document suggests that lobbying efforts by the palm oil industry are paying off.

oil palm production has driven large-scale destruction of rainforests across southeast Asia over the past two decades, triggering the release of billions of tons of carbon dioxide emissions and imperiling rare species

corporate America has led us into thinking that we can save the earth mainly by buying things

‘lazy environmentalism,’ is geared toward the masses that aren’t willing to sacrifice,”

armchair activism actualizes itself most fully in the realm of consumer goods; through buying the right products we can usher our economic system into the environmental age.”

what we consider normal levels of energy use, gadget use, clothing purchases, car usage, flying, et cetera etc etc in the really not so distant past were lower.

Just one example, air conditioning use. What once was considering a luxury is unquestioningly now called a necessity in more and more places--in the process ignoring entirely the fact that 1) air conditioning is a historically modern invention, 2) places used to be built with natural cooling in mind, 3) it simply isn't a necessity for the vast majority of people

How often people used to eat meat