It was Abraham Lincoln who in commenting on human nature said so succinctly: “Human nature will not change.  In any future great national trial…we shall have…weak….and…strong…silly…and….wise…bad …and…good!” Response to a Serenade, November 10th 1864.

History has proven Lincoln to be right and shown that many environmental organizations such as Greenpeace are the weak, silly and bad masquerading as the strong, wise and good!

For so long now, the Palm Oil Truth Foundation has questioned the motives of environmental organizations such as Greenpeace, the Friends of the Earth (FOE) and Wetlands in their inexplicable and incongruous morphing into nefarious, twisted and unethical lobbies beholden to commercial interests in their tirades against palm oil.

Greenpeace is the self-same organization that recently sent a band of misguided youths dressed in orang utan outfits to scale the walls of the Unilever plant in Wirral in protest against “the multinational’s use of palm oil in their products, claiming that continued use would harm the habitat of the orang utan due to forest clearing by palm oil plantations.”

And so says John Sauven, current Executive Director of Greenpeace: “Destruction of these forests rapidly adds to climate change too, because preparation of land for new palm oil plantations releases large amounts of carbon dioxide as it is drained and burnt.”  Sauven was parroting the long held Greenpeace stance that climate change and global warming was “man-made” or caused by human activities.

However, it is entirely fallacious that palm oil is responsible for deforestation, at least in Malaysia, the world’s largest producer of palm oil.  Much of Malaysia’s palm oil plantations are planted on legitimate agricultural land and logged over areas.  Malaysia too have for decades now, vigorously pursues policies of environmental protection with the promulgation and enforcement of various environmental laws such as the Environmental Quality Act, the Land Conservation Act and the National Forestry Act, “to minimize the impact of human activities relating to, inter alia, deforestation, agriculture and development of other resources on the environment.” The orang utan, as the Malaysian national mascot is totally protected. The commitment of the Malaysian Palm Oil Council to their conservation is clearly evidenced by the Council’s recent inking of a US$7 Million joint effort with the Borneo Conservation Trust and Bursa Malaysia to protect the animal.  

As events will subsequently show, there is more to it than meets the eye, for all these scurrilous attacks against palm oil by Greenpeace and others of their ilk.  

Shockingly, Greenpeace’s real motives was about to be exposed by the words and conduct of their own founder, Patrick Moore.  Says Moore, in a speech recently to the Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce: “there is no proof global warming is caused by humans, but it is likely enough that the world should turn to nuclear power - a concept tied closely to the underground nuclear testing his former environmental group formed to oppose.” (i)

The current Greenpeacers were none too happy with Moore's position and they were quick to hit back.  Says Andrea Shipley, executive director of the Snake River Alliance: “He has simply sold out.” "The only reason Patrick Moore is backing something as unsafe and risky as nuclear power is he is being paid by the nuclear industry to do so," Shipley said.

So what else is new?  The Palm Oil Truth Foundation has been pointing out, for some time now, that the activities of Greenpeace against palm oil, which is the most sustainable of all the oil seeds, is so incongruous and perplexing that there is only one compelling and irresistible explanation for their position – Greenpeace has sold out and have been paid by either “big oil” or one or more of the competing oil seeds such as soy, rapeseed or sunflower to run this deceitful, disgraceful and unprincipled campaign against palm oil!

And so a can of worms has been opened by its own founder.  Greenpeace is made up of people that, as Lincoln suggested are “the weak, silly and bad” masquerading as “the strong, wise and good.”  Press some cash into their hands and they’d adopt any lobby and attack any crop, industry or government so long as the cash keeps coming in.

References

(i)http://www.freedomdogs.com/news-archive-mainmenu-2/112-global-warmingcooling/2823-greenpeace-founder-no-proof-global-warming-is-man-made.html