Palm oil and its affects on our environment! Global warming #3

If you have been reading my blog posts recently , (witch I thank you for) you will know that I did a post about global warming and things we can do about it. If you haven’t read that, you can check it out here: https://tigershakti.wordpress.com/2020/11/11/global-warming-part-two/

But now for this post! This post is going to be about palm oil and it’s affects on our environment. Because lots of people don’t even know what it is and how bad palm oil is. So on that note, let’s get started!

Palm oil itself is not bad, but how it is harvested and grown is the problem. Large palm oil industries chop down and decimate forests and rain forests to make room for palm oil plantations. Now, you might be thinking, why is that so bad? Yes trees are being cut down, but the big palm oil planing industry’s are planting oil palm trees too! The problem is that palm oil trees just can’t sustain life and biodiversity like a rain forest or forest can. In a rainforest, there are many, many different types of trees, and all of them together, is what makes up the rain forests diversity and ability to sustain so much life. And when you chop it all down, or burn it all and replace it will one type of tree, oil palm, that just destroys the biodiversity and life.

Now you might be thinking, why palm oil? Well, palm oil is basically the cheapest vegetable oil. And so that is why.

What can we do?! It is very important that we do something about palm oil. Many people don’t even know about the problem of palm oil. And another thing, palm oil is in so many every day items! Like soap, food, etc. Now you might be thinking, what are we going to do about this? Palm oil is in so many things! The best thing that you can do is gradually stop eating or using palm as much as we can.

There is also something called sustainably harvested palm oil. And it is exactly what it sounds like. But even with sustainability harvested palm oil, it is best to leave it and avoid palm oil all together. This is super easy, all you have to do is check the ingredients for palm oil!

That is it for today’s post! I hope you enjoyed it! Don’t forget to look at all our other posts! Bye!