#Regram #RG everydayclimatechange: Photo by JshPhotog - Natural rain forest at the top of the picture, being clear-cut to make way for Sinar Mas/APP-owned plantations to produce pulp paper, in Rimba Hutan Mas logging concession, in southern Sumatra province, Indonesia, 2010. Shot on assignment for Greenpeace Greenpeacepix. Over one quarter of Indonesia’s forests have disappeared in the last 25 years, cut down to make way for fast growing plantations to use in the pulp paper industry (to make the tissues and toilet papers we use) and to make way for palm oil plantations (palm oil is used in soaps, detergents, lipsticks, chocolate, the list goes on…
worldwildlife.org/pages/which-everyday-products-contain-palm-oil) It is estimated that 20% of global annual climate-wrecking carbon emissions come from the destruction of our rainforests.
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