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Deforestation (Solutions (Convince people to purchase less palm oil and…

- - - - Informing others about the devastating effects of deforestation on the environment will help to create a new generation of people who are informed about our problems and take action to solve them.
  - - - Tofu
      - Nuts
      - Beans
      - Lentils
      - Spirulina
      - Broccoli and other greens
      - Eggs
  - - - Coconut oil
      - Vegetable oil
      - No oils
      - Cocoa Butter
    - - Palm oil is in roughly half of all foods you can buy at the grocery store!
      - Trees have to be cleared in excess to make way for palm plantations.
        
        Up to 300 football fields of forest are cleared every HOUR to make room for palm plantations
      - Clearing the trees also results in the loss of animal habitat.
        
        In the past 10 years, the orangutan population has decreased by 50 percent as the result of habitat loss from forest clearing for palm plantations
    - - If we all make an effort to stop purchasing palm oil products, companies will have to make changes to regain their customers. So check the label!
      - Look for products with the RSPO label on them
- - - - Effects of the production of tar sands oil in Alberta
        
        Contaminated vast quantities of water
        
        Poisoned downstream communities
        
        created a toxic sacrifice zone the size of some small countries
  - - - The industries that are dependent on wood, sometimes kill envriomentlaitsts in order to remove the trees without anyone saying they cant
      - In 2015 alone, 185 environmentalists were killed for peacefully disagreeing with the destruction of forests.
  - - - It costs 2 million dollars to ship 10 million dollars of rainforest!
- - - - Considering the average human lifetime in the US is 71 years, trees could take an entire lifetime to grow or to grow back!
  - - - Forests still cover about 30% of the land on earth, but an area about the size of the country of Panama is cut down every year.
      - More than 200,000 acres of trees are destroyed every single year.
        
        That totals to more than 550 acres of trees destroyed every single day. That's about 500 football fields!