environmental apocalypse

bloody disaster, is what it will be. there's been a huge "gold rush" for land by foreign and local investors in kalimantan, sumatra and sulawesi for the past 18 months. we all know where this will end ...

Interesting. It'll all end in tears.

John McCarthy, Canberra As boom towns flicker to life across rural Indonesia, the relentless pursuit of oil palm wealth poses social and environmental problems for Indonesian policy makers. In India the rural poor ration every last drop of cooking oil. In Malaysia and Northern Australia factories built to convert vegetable oil to biofuel sit idle. Food riots have erupted in Guinea, Mexico and Uzbekistan, all linked to the price of vegetable oil and other basic foodstuffs.