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Palm Oil: Greenpeace, FOE and the Holocaust |
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Written by Frank Tate
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Wednesday, 23 July 2008 |
 Just imagine that a new scientific theory has recently surfaced that warns of an impending global crisis and provides a “viable solution” to the crisis.
What happens then is that the theory will quickly draw the support of politicians, scientists, philanthropies and celebrities around the world.
Research is eagerly funded by governments and distinguished philanthropies and carried out in prestigious universities. The media, hungry for eye catching stories lap it all up and go to town with the news. The “science” even filters down to the teaching curriculum of colleges and high schools around the world.
Sadly, this generation witnessed the tragic consequences of such a phenomenon which rose to prominence a century ago.
This theory was warmly embraced by the likes of Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. It was even ruled as legitimate and lawful by eminent jurists such as Supreme Court justices like Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis Brandeis. Prominent personages such as Alexander Graham Bell, HG Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Leland Stanford (the founder of Stanford University) and even Nobel Peace Prize winners gave their backing. Research was funded by the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations. In fact, a fully dedicated research institution (the Cold Harbor Springs Institute) was built to carry out research into this theory and additional work was carried out by ivy-league universities such as Yale, Harvard, Princeton and Stanford!
To make matters more interesting, these efforts had the support of the American Medical Association, the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council.
All told, the research, legislation and molding of public opinion went on for more than half a century! Naysayers were shouted down and labeled as reactionary, “blind to reality” or just plain ignorant. The sad thing was the fact that so few objected to this theory.
Today we know that this theory was blatantly wrong and that it was founded on pseudoscience. The crisis that this theory postulated was non-existent and the actions taken in pursuance of this theory were both criminally and morally wrong! The sad thing is that millions of lives were lost as a result of a genocidal campaign carried out in the name of this theory!
What scientific theory was this? It was eugenics. The theory of eugenics postulated a crisis of the gene pool leading to the deterioration of the human race. The fact is that the history behind this theory was so awful, and for its proponents, eventually so embarrassing, that it is rarely discussed today.
Just five decades later, we are again witnessing the rise of another “scientific” theory that warns of an impending “global crisis” and offers a “viable solution” to the crisis! The moral posturing by politicians, celebrities, scientist and philanthropies bear all the hallmarks of humankind going down the exact path of blind allegiance and fervent embrace of a pseudoscientific theory that can eventually prove so awful and embarrassing for its proponents.
Like the theory of eugenics, the media has lapped up the theory of global warming and gone to town with coverage on the imminent danger facing mankind. This theory has even filtered down to the teaching curriculum of universities and high schools all over the world! Environmental organizations were set up to campaign for preventive measures to be taken to reverse “global warming” and “climate change”. As before, nay-sayers were shouted down and labeled as reactionary, “blind to reality” or just plain ignorant. The sad thing was, as in the case of the theory of eugenics, so few objected to this theory.
Unfortunately, in their fervor to campaign for preventative measures to be taken to mitigate climate change, palm oil has been unfairly targeted by these environmental organizations such as Greenpeace, the Friends of the Earth (FOE), Wetlands and the esoterically and oddly named Mongabay, with accusations of deforestation to the potential extinction of the pygmy elephant and orang utan right across the entire spectrum of environmental “transgressions” to global warming.
Just how much credence can we give to this assertion?
The Palm Oil Truth Foundation takes the view that climate change theory is clearly unproven and is currently at best a pseudoscience. It makes us cringe to see the gross abuse of climate change theory by the less scrupulous amongst us – shocking in view of the obvious environmental pedigree (or at least, public perception of their pedigree) of some of them. But we’ve gone down that path before, haven’t we, just a short fifty years or so ago?
To make matters more disconcerting is the fact that vis a vis the competing oil seed crops such as soy, rapeseed and sunflower, palm oil has an enviable record for CO2 sequestration. Whilst no virgin forests have been cleared for replanting with palm oil, at least for the past decade or so in Malaysia the oil palm tree with its extremely high leaf index is unmatchable when it comes to sequestering CO2 when compared to the competing oil seeds.
We have to ask just why palm oil attracts all this flak from environmental organizations when it is patently obvious to all and sundry that its environmental record is far superior to the competing oil-seeds.
Finally, the Palm Oil Truth Foundation urges caution and recommends that the media should be more vigorous in their examination of this pseudoscience of “global warming” lest we repeat the horrendous mistakes that were committed, not too long ago, in the name of a “scientific” theory that had been blindly accepted by all and sundry. The parallel is obvious! THE END. |
Sad that people actually buy into the nonsense spewed by Greenpeace and FOE. The writer is correct to draw a parallel with academia and the world media before the holocaust. History is repeating itself with global warming. Posted by Shrek, on December 21, 2009 at 22:22
I agree. All these environmental organizations are really scums out to scam us for funds so that their office bearers can live it up. Posted by Glen Gorman, on August 19, 2008 at 8:39
Never realized that these environmental bodies have such sinister motives. Now I know and you can bet that I'd be spreading the word! Posted by SR Leonard, on July 28, 2008 at 14:44
Well written. What an eye opener! Posted by D. Myles, on July 28, 2008 at 14:26
I totally agree. Mongabay, Greenpeace and the others are just slimeballs and scumbags in this elaborate scheme to con the world into funding their elaborate environmental scams. Their ultimate aim is to get their greedy fingers on funds. Palm oil just happens to be an unfortunate target caught in their economic gun-sights. Posted by Takashi Hashimoto, on July 28, 2008 at 5:52
It's as clear as daylight. Many of these 'environmental' bodies, including those with impeccable 'environmental pedigrees' like Greenpeace, FOE, Wetlands, Treehugger and Mongabay are really scums. Global warming and the attacks against palm oil are just a ploy to swell their funds so that their office bearers can live it up while the innocent amongst us, including govts. corps. and individuals contribute or donate to their 'causes'. Posted by J Paige, on July 24, 2008 at 4:24
Know why environmental outfits like Greenpeace, the Friends of the Earth, Treehugger, Mongabay.com and Wetlands attack palm oil? Simple. It helps to fill their coffers. Pay them and they'd attack anything and anyone! Posted by Phil Jones, on July 23, 2008 at 11:27
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