The rainforests around the world have been dwindling to the point where we will soon have no more in the world. We lose an ecosystem for Creatures as we deforest the area and plant crops for products we do not need such as palm oil. Animals, Such as the orangutan, face the destruction of their homeland with us continuing to increase the production of palm oil. What could make this change? Decreasing the use of palm oil, an ingredient contained in multiple products we use daily, can help decrease the deforestation in the rainforest and allow animals such as the orangutan to thrive. Palm oil became relevant to us only years ago.
Palm oil became a factor in our lives back in the 1900's. Originally said by Spinks, "Palm oil became more popular
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Many companies use the product since it makes things easily spreadable (WWF). Scientists have tried to find different replacements for palm oil. One different palm oil alternative was invented by researchers at the University of Bath. The yeast known as M pulcherrima has the capability of mimicking the what makes palm oil so useful; the yeast is easily spreadable and has the same or close to same melting point as the product palm oil (WWF). The most beneficial part for this yeast is it does not take much to grow. Balch says that this yeast has the "ability to grow on pretty much any organic feedstock". The finding of this palm oil could reduce the increase of deforestation for the growth of palm oil farms. Development for faster growth for this yeast is not too far away from …show more content…
The machinery can be even outside in different conditions, says Oliver Balch. The contraptions invented could replace some of the jobs lost from the decrease of the use of palm oil if the yeast becomes a viable alternative to palm oil. Farming and increasing the output of the yeast can help set an example that the yeast could be a viable alternative. Chris Chunk, researcher for Bath's Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies, says "“Irrespective of what you are putting in at the start, whether it’s rapeseed, straw or waste food, M pulcherrima can use the sugars in it and grow on it." Chunk also mentions that the production for this yeast would take "less than 10 or even 100 times the amount of land palm oil plantations" (Balch). Having a product that can easily grow in a fast pace and take up less land than what is needed for palm oil can be a new start to slowly move away from palm oil in everyday products that people use
The Standard Oil Company sparked a lot of interest among Americans because they were interested in how one man could become so rich. This caused the oil industry to become more popular and grow tremendously. More Americans were becoming more familiar with kerosene, which was used for cooking, heating, and in lamps. Henry Ford created a car that was more affordable for average people when Rockefeller discovered gasoline as a byproduct of kerosene.
This process also produces high levels of oxygen that help to support life around the world. Coupled with the high levels of rainfall that benefit the water cycle, the rainforests are an integral part of the many systems that exist. These forests contain a wide variety of plants that a source of different chemicals that are used to create medicines. The degradation of these areas could potentially lead to the loss of medicines that could cure some of the deadliest diseases and illnesses that Governments in these countries need to stop thinking of forests as a renewable resource. The rate at which they are harvesting these areas drives them beyond the boundaries of sustainability.
Besides being able to produce food at a faster rate, technology has helped improve the health of multiple foods. As has been said previously, soybeans are currently used to create oil; however, this was only possible with improvements to technology to help extract this oil from the beans. Besides beans, leafy greens also have improvements in health. A new process known as aeroponics, a newer form of hydroponics, uses mist to provide nutrients to the plants (Gilpin, “10 Foods That Technology Has Transformed.”). This reduces water consumption. Since aeroponics occurs indoors, pesticides are not used and since the plants are grown in water rather than soil, contaminated manure is no longer a
Although considered faster and cheaper, this approach to providing other alternative resources to food is slowly but significantly drying up our plant and is compromising human health. Because of the increa...
The forest where animals live already deforested because of human activities, for example they build a huge building for office, turn-over the function of forest became farming, and many more. We already felt, the transition of life goes so fast. As the time goes on, people need many foods because human population in the world keep increasing each year. That’s why people cut down the trees and change the forest become farming. But the bad effects that causes animals lose their habitat. Most of them move to another place, find a new place to hold their life, and problems that the chimpanzees face are they can’t find food as usual. Chimpanzees spend six to eight hours each day searching for food. They eat a wide variety of food, 200 different types of plant, and are particularly fond of leaves, fruit, nuts and berries (Banks, 1999). In a long term one by one the chimpanzees died because they can’t survived in their new habitat, that’s happened many times. Beside that they must face new predators likes jungle cat and reptile, it also the effect of human
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The very origin of Standard Oil began with John D. Rockefeller himself. Rockefeller was born in Richford, New York in 1839 and he moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio in 1853. By 1859, he established a business which dealt with hay, grain, meats, and other merchandise. He first saw a future in oil production in Pennsylvania in the early 1860s. He immediately established his own oil refinery in 1863 and became the largest refinery around the Cleveland area within two years (“John D. Rockefeller”).
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Although it may still affect the environment and the species, palm oil is still essential for the production of the needs of the human population such as foods and the products being created.
One may be surprised by how many common products include palm oil. It’s in a wide variety of items, and with over fifty different names, many are unaware of what palm oil is. The reason everything includes this oil specifically is because oil palm
The Human Impact on Rainforests Human Impact on Rainforest is it a necessity? Rainforest are the beautiful gift of Mother Nature. It consists of the most magnificent species and plants in the world. 4.2% of the world’s animals live in the rainforest. This statistic it self shows how bad it would be to destroy such essential part of the worlds biodiversity.
Oil is an essential resource in the whole world. People use oil in a variety of ways. The world has used oil for many years and it will still use it as a basic commodity. Oil use can be traced back to 1850s. However, when Edwin Drake produced commercially usable quantities of crude oil from a 69-foot well in Pennsylvania in 1859, he marked a new period that considered oil as a valuable commodity. Oil prices have been inconsistent since 1859. The discoveries of more wells considerably lowered oil prices and made some oil barons abandon the industry. However, oil prices have increased over time because of several factors.
The article addresses the ecological impact of palm oil plantation in Indonesia and Malaysia. The author conducts a descriptive study of how the increased demand for palm has impacted biodiversity especially indigenous animals such as orangutan. In order to assess the impact of palm oil plantation on orangutan’s habitat, the author conducted a literature review. The author notes that the need to expand land for palm oil expansion has negatively impacted the composition and the size of orangutan’s habitat. These findings imply that sustainable environmental policies and techniques need to be developed and implemented so as to mitigate the negative impact of the palm oil plantation of orangutan’s habitat.
Rainforests once covered 14% of the worlds land surface, however now it only covers a mere 6%. It is estimated that all rainforests could be consumed in less than 40 years. Trees are becoming more needed and used everyday. We need them cut down for many reasons such as paper and timber, while also needing them ‘untouched’ for other reasons like oxygen, we have to ask ourselves, which is more important? At the current rate, most of the rainforests are being cut down for resources like paper and timber, but less importance is being placed on main resources like oxygen.
Although subsistence activities have dominated agriculture-driven deforestation in the tropics to date, large-scale commercial activities are playing an increasingly significant role. In the Amazon, industrial-scale cattle ranching and soybean production for world markets are increasingly important causes of deforestation, and in Indonesia, the conversion of tropical forest to commercial palm tree plantations to produce bio-fuels for export is a major cause of deforestation on Borneo and Sumatra.