Article by Palm Oil Truth Foundation
There are no simple problems in the world of the zealot. Everything is a crisis, epidemic, disaster or catastrophe. There is always the need for urgent action, which usually means taxation, authoritarian control and further loss of liberty.
The greatest of these movements, rich in all the above characteristics, is the eco-theological one, which has morphed into the anti-carbon crusade. It is a world-wide phenomenon of historically unprecedented magnitude and power. The demonisation of carbon, the very basis of all life on earth, can only be explained as a religious phenomenon. Its sheer perversity is its attraction: for faith requires an element of absurdity in its object. It requires no faith to believe that the apple will fall downwards from the tree. The carbon campaign is the pinnacle of the movement that began modestly with the earliest impositions of political correctness.
When the world thought that the New Right was in the ascendancy during the Reagan-Thatcher years, it was the New Left that was quietly gathering momentum. Like a snowball rolling down a hill it picked up mass as it went along. The membership was many and various (followers of Rachel Carson, Marxist academics, draft-dodgers, sputniks left homeless by the collapse of the Soviet Empire, juvenile delinquents masquerading as idealistic youth etc.) They were characterized by the things that they hated (industry, capitalism, free markets, bourgeois complacency, open science etc.)
The global warming hypothesis was a godsend to the New Left. It provided a means of attacking industry and capitalism through the one great essential to modern life, energy. Anyone who questioned the dogma was subject to insults and threats, including the appalling crudity and tastelessness of being likened to the holocaust deniers. All realistic proposals to develop workable sources of energy such as palm oil based bio-fuels, are bitterly opposed by the green network, while patently hare-brained ones, such as the inefficient wind turbines, are sustained by regulation and subsidy, with the added bonus of bringing down the free market.
Global warming has now got to the stage where it is only maintained by media self-censorship. If the general public ever got to know of the scandals surrounding the collection and processing of data, or that there has been no detectable warming for the last decade, the whole movement would be dead in the water; but they don't, so it isn't. It has become the most powerful myth in human history, sending much of the world into a downward helix of economic decline. It is a tenuous hypothesis supported by ill-founded computer models and data from botched measurement, deliberately dubiously processed.
Palm oil, of course, has not been immune from the machinations of environmental zealotry foisted upon it by the likes of Greenpeace and the Friends of the Earth (FOE) (misnomers, if ever there was one!)
The media needs to be self-aware and cognizant that the global warming hypothesis is truly a vehicle for massive fraud by innocent and earnest sounding environmental zealots such as Greenpeace and the Friends of the Earth (FOE). But isn't the appearance of innocence and earnestness the stock-in-trade of the global scam artist and conman?
However, framing the debate in a rational and fact based manner, taking into the account the very real issues of world welfare and economic policy priorities seem to be beyond both Greenpeace and the FOE. Instead, their entire agenda is centered on the impassioned, "frothing-at-the-mouth" idea of imminent catastrophe.
That the media should buy into the expensive and elaborate actions demanded by the likes of Greenpeace and the FOE that would cost the world hundreds of billions of dollars, money that could be better served by focusing our resources on more immediate concerns such as fighting malaria or HIV/AIDS and assuring clean and safe fresh water supply to the underdeveloped parts of the world, says less about the un-inquiring minds of journalists but more about their need to feed the world with sensationalistic news, even when the news is less than accurate.
If that were not so, how could we explain the blanket media coverage given to FOE's and Greenpeace's unfounded allegation that palm oil is causing massive deforestation and consequently heralding the advent of global warming?
A cursory examination by the media would have evinced the fact that something doesn't jive with the claims of these two rogue environmental organizations.
After all, it is well established that palm oil is the most productive of all the oilseeds, so productive in fact, that one hectare of oil palm plantation can yield more than 10 times the yield of competing oilseeds such as soy, rapeseed and sunflower. What this means even to the untrained statistical mind is that palm oil requires 10 times LESS land to produce the same metric-tonnage of oil.
It would take a severe leap of logic for the media to accept Greenpeace and FOE's assertions that palm oil is causing massive deforestation. The reality on the ground is that for that reason alone, palm oil remains one of the most ecologically friendly of oilseed crops. That also explains why Malaysia, despite being the world's largest oil palm producer and despite it having grown palm oil for more than a hundred years, can still preserve forest cover in excess of 65%. Do the media even bother to investigate before publishing the wild claims of these two miscreant environmental organizations?
In the view of the Palm Oil Truth Foundation, what we need is a new approach on this issue that believes that panic is neither warranted nor a constructive platform from which to deal with humanity's problems, and not just on palm oil and the issue of global warming! THE END.
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