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Snacks Light Fuse of Indonesian "Forest Bomb"


Green Lifestyle  (tags: Sustainabililty, social, risks, environment, conservation, food )

Chris
- 747 days ago - reuters.com
Indonesia's peatland forests are a ticking "climate bomb" and Kit Kats, Pringles and other palm oil-based products are lighting the fuse, global conservation group Greenpeace said on Thursday.
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Mari Basque (1238)
Saturday November 10, 2007, 5:35 pm
Thankyou Chris! You are one in a million sweety!!! Save the trees!
 

serge vrabec (253)
Saturday November 10, 2007, 7:26 pm
Great article, thx Chris!! No more KitKats for me!!

"(If the Riau peatlands are cleared) it would wipe out any chance we have of keeping the temperature increase below two degrees Celsius," she said, referring to a threshold given by the UN's climate panel.

That is very serious! I hope that with all the earthquakes and hundreds of tremors, the flooding of late and all the storms that Indonesia has been receiving they will get the hint; its time to leave that rainforest intact!!
 

serge vrabec (253)
Saturday November 10, 2007, 7:27 pm
You cannot currently send a star to Chris because you have done so within the last week.
 

Past Member (0)
Sunday November 11, 2007, 7:43 am
They took all the trees
And put them in a tree museum
And they charged all the people
A dollar and a half just to see'em.
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone.
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot.
Joni Mitchell,Big Yellow Taxi

Plant Life
Plant Trees...
 

Eternal Optimist (115)
Monday November 12, 2007, 6:02 am
Noted. Thanks Chris. Gut wrenching!
 

Past Member (0)
Monday November 12, 2007, 8:44 am
In America today
you can murder
land for private profit.
You can leave the corpse
for all to see,
and nobody calls the cops.
Paul Brooks,

The Pursuit of Wilderness, 1971
 
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