Indonesian Palm Oil Problem on HBO
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
In Indonesia's Palm Bomb, the latest episode of VICE, HBO's Emmy award-winning television series, correspondent Ben Anderson travels to northern Sumatra to focus world attention on the effects of the palm-oil industry on the forests and people of Indonesia.
That millions of hectares of forest have been illegally cleared to establish oil palm estates in tropical climes is widely decried. But in Indonesia, the favored land-clearing method is to burn forests, which releases massive quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, hampering efforts to reduce emissions and control climate change. Anderson sets out to discover why conservation laws in Indonesia are no match for powerful palm oil interests.
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In Indonesia's Palm Bomb, the latest episode of VICE, HBO's Emmy award-winning television series, correspondent Ben Anderson travels to northern Sumatra to focus world attention on the effects of the palm-oil industry on the forests and people of Indonesia.
That millions of hectares of forest have been illegally cleared to establish oil palm estates in tropical climes is widely decried. But in Indonesia, the favored land-clearing method is to burn f
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