Greenpeace protesters chaining themselves to the outside of a ship.https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10597731Forget about the protesters, haul up the anchor & sail with the protesters dangling for the whole voyage.
That said... having just returned from north-east Malaysian Borneo (ooh, aren't you the traveller), the level of destruction of rainforrest habitat in order to plant palm-oil plantations is absolutely disgraceful. In the few areas of rainforrest left on this island live several species of endangered animals, birds... the orang-utan being the most well known, but also amongst them the clouded leopard, the pigmy elephant, the proboscis monkey, the pangolin, the slow loris, the giant flying squirrel, the Malayan sunbear, the mousedeer to name a few. You can drive for five, six, seven hours on end, and all you will see are felled areas of rainforrest replaced by palm plantations. The wanton destruction of the habitat of several endangered animals for reckless proffit (and mostly by large multinational corporations, not for local industry before anyone raises that one) pisses me off, and I can understand why Greenpeace took the actions they did.
Level of destruction? Stats please - (% of rainforest remaining, % of representative habitat/ecosystems lost)
Presumably the fast loris got away in time and the slightly smaller flying squirrel as well.
Probably the only reason you can drive hours and see felled areas is because they've put in a road to fell the area.
Greenpeace are not exactly forthcoming with the truth so don't think that because their foot soldiers are young idealists, they will save the world from ourselves.
I think I'll go and fix myself a slab of greenhouse gas-rich protein from some ruminant that I've transported from the supermarket in my SUV... and wrapped up in a plastic bag or two.
And I think I'll go and milk my palm kernal fed cows
