Palm Oil and the Crowned Prince of Hyperbole
Heads up, folks. Sean Whyte, executive director of Nature Alert is a new rampage. Write to news media in Malaysia is a man in his crusade against palm oil, Mr. Whyte was not helping his cause with his strange penchant for exaggeration. In fact, is rooted in its need for exaggeration that Mr. Whyte, the undisputed leader of the environmental Crowned Prince of hyperbole.
If Mr. Whyte is the self-appointed spokesman for the environmental movement, it should not make the movement smooth.
Mr. Whyte wrote: “What happens is that after millions of years of freedom of hectares of rainforest logging in the eradication process of making tens of millions of wild animals, the industry of palm oil is ultimately responsible for the death and destruction are obvious caused relatively easy, until now. ”
It is therefore to ask how palm oil can kill tens of millions of wild animals, since the number of known species of all animals living on this planet other than arthropods, only about 250,000!
In case of doubt on the innate tendency Mr.Whyte s’ is immediately deleted exaggerating when he warned that “about 20 years from now, there would be little or no more forests in Malaysia and Indonesia.”
Perhaps, Mr. Whyte is aware that plantations of palm oil from Malaysia for over a hundred years and yet the country still has forest cover of 56%. Yes, read again. 100 years of oil palm and increasingly Malaysia still has 56% forest cover!
Is it also recognizes that Malaysia had already committed under the Rio Summit, over 50 per cent of its land under forest cover. This is more than double the forestry situation in the home of Mr. Whyte, the United Kingdom.
The reason is the inherent productivity of palm oil. The highest yield of all oilseeds, palm oil has a yield of 4-5 tons per hectare, nearly ten times that of its closest competitors, such as soybean, rapeseed and sunflower. For the same reason, the cultivation of palm oil in the most efficient use of the territory it covers less than 1% of total world farmland.
In the view of Deforestation Watch, if Mr.Whyte really busy preserving the environment, palm oil instead of calling “the industry’s most environmentally destructive in the world”, it should consider to ask the oil palm plant rather than competitive crops (weather permitting) because of its extreme efficiency in land use, because palm oil ten times less land to produce the same unit of edible oil required!
The reality is this. If the cultivation of palm oil were reduced or completely removed from the comparison with the market, the world would have encryption codes for more oil which in turn will see ten times more land is opened up to other oilseed crops to fill the void left by palm oil. In these circumstances then, Mr. Whyte claims of environmental destruction receive a degree of credibility and perhaps become a grim reality.
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