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EU climate policy destroys rain forests — they call it saving the planet:

“Why are Borneo’s forests being cut down? The reason, as Attenborough said, is palm oil, a crop used in products ranging from soap to biscuits. But he left out the real reason.” .. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6…
“Half of all the millions of tons of palm oil sent to Europe is used to make ‘biofuel’, thanks to an EU directive stating that, by 2020, ten per cent of forecourt fuel must come from ‘renewable’ biological sources. Malaysia says this has ‘created an unprecedented demand’.”
Thus, in the name of saving the planet, the EU destroys the planet.

But why would the climate movement care?
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