agriculture
Posted by jamie — 1 September 2008 at 4:58pm
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On Friday, a Greenpeace team
broadcast a live webcast from the heart of the Amazon rainforest, in an area
which was still-smouldering after a recent forest fire. Even rainforests have dry seasons and during the current one, fires both natural and man-made are devastating huge areas.
It was an amazing
technical achievement but that wasn't the reason they did it - they were there to show how the forest is being cleared for a variety of reasons (in this case, to open
up areas for cattle).
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Posted by bex — 20 February 2008 at 12:59pm
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Ken
Livingstone wants it for London, Hilary
Benn is giving money to it and Adam
and Debbie are bringing it to Ambridge. After a couple of millennia in
the sidelines, anaerobic digestion has finally hit the big time (well, The
Archers, anyway) - which is why we've chosen it for this second edition of the Weekly Geek.
Every year, we bury
thousands of tonnes of waste food in landfill sites around the UK. We produce almost one
and a half million tonnes of sewage a year (don't do the maths - it's
disturbing), which is mostly spread on land, incinerated or buried as landfill. And we produce enormous
amounts of agricultural waste on our farms. All of this waste breaks down to release greenhouse gases as it decomposes.
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Forested peatlands cleared for oil palm plantations in Riau, Indonesia © Greenpeace/Oka Budhi
Why is palm oil a problem?
The global palm oil industry is expanding rapidly: it's used in an increasing number of food and cosmetic products, while demands for its use in biofuels like biodiesel are set to soar in the near future. Tropical rainforests and peatlands, in South East Asia are being destroyed to make way for oil palm plantations. Not only is this a disaster for biodiversity and local communities, it will also release vast amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, accelerating climate change.
Posted by jamie — 18 October 2007 at 11:26am
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A mob led by loggers prevents Greenpeace activists from leaving Brazilian government offices ©Greenpeace/Rodrigo Baleia
There's been further friction in the Amazon between Greenpeace staff and angry loggers and townspeople. It's all ended peacefully but the situation was tense and they were holed up overnight under police protection. This from Reuters:
Police escorted a group of Greenpeace activists from a remote town in the Brazilian Amazon on Wednesday after hundreds of loggers and townspeople besieged them overnight in protest against an anti-global warming campaign, the environmental organization said.
