Netpardon,Greenpeace and FOE hitting the wrong target with palm oil
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Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 Time: 2:00 AM
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Matt Emmons, Olympics gold medallist in rifle shooting in Athens 2004 was set to win a second gold. He had a commanding lead and hoped to hit the bull's eye on his last shot. He did but something went wrong. He hit the wrong target!
Eammons recalled that he was focusing on staying calm. He should have been focusing on the right target.
Emmons fired at the wrong one with his final shot Sunday, a shocking mistake that cost the American a commanding lead in the Olympic 50-meter three-position rifle final and ruined his chance for a second gold medal.
Leading by three points and needing only to get near the bull's-eye to win, Emmons fired at the target in lane three while shooting in lane two. When no score appeared, he gestured to officials that he thought there was some sort of error with his target.
Officials huddled before announcing that Emmons had cross-fired — an extremely rare mistake in elite competition — and awarded him a score of zero. That dropped Emmons to eighth place at 1,257.4 points and lifted Jia Zhanbo of China to the gold at 1,264.5.
"I had no clue what happened," Jia said through an interpreter. "I looked at the scoreboard and there was no score for Mr. Emmons."
In many ways, the anti-palm oil campaigns by Greenpeace and the Friends of the Earth (FOE) bears a startling similarity to the faulty aiming of Eammons.
Accusing palm oil of causing massive deforestation and peat lands and playing havoc with ecosystems and biodiversity and claiming that deforestation costs anything between $2-5tn dollars a year and causes 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions, both Greenpeace and FOE shrilly demanded that growth of palm oil be reined in.
Whilst acknowledging that palm oil fuels the developing economies of Indonesia and Malaysia, Greenpeace and FOE claim that it is also irrevocably damaging them. As demand for oil palm grows in the EU and in the burgeoning economies of India, China and the rest of the world, both green groups bayed that we will start paiying the environmental costs soon.
What is interesting is that both groups which hail from the UK remain silent over the 33 millions tons of carbon emitted during the annual process of coal mining in the UK. Yet the cultivation of palm oil which has been hailed recently by researchers from Wageningen University in the Netherlands as "the most efficient energy crop," is systematically demonized as destructive of rainforest and contributing to global warming.
The university's finding is a rejection of environmental NGOs and the anti-palm oil lobbyists who consistently claim that palm oil is unsustainable.
Its research found that palm oil, sugar cane and sweet sorghum are currently the most sustainable energy crops. These commodities also produce "far smaller quantities of greenhouse gases than fossil fuels".
The university's analysis considered nine different energy crops against nine different sustainability criteria with palm oil coming out on top while biofuel from maize from the United States and wheat from Europe scored far lower.
The report's author, Sander de Vries, concluded that sustainable sugar canes and oil palms get the most energy per hectare and cause the least environmental damage.
Another researcher, Dr Gernot Pehnelt, founder and director of GlobEcon, an independent research and consulting institute based in Germany, released a new study that revealed the biased and prejudicial nature of the EU's Renewable Energy Directive towards foreign biofuels.
The report, entitled "European Policies Towards Palm Oil: Sorting Out Some Facts," demonstrated that the assumptions contained in the directive about the ecological impact of foreign biofuels reflected political and not scientific or economic reality.
Dr Pehnelt came to the defense of the rich biodiversity in oil palm plantations, their excellent crown cover that oil palms provide and the yield per hectare advantages of this low-energy and low-fertilizer crop.
"Sadly, many of the claims that foreign biofuels, specifically palm oil, are a threat to the environment are seriously flawed, some even completely unfounded," he said, adding that the side effects of the flawed policies could give rise to political friction and trade disputes to severe economic handicaps for developing countries.
"This new study makes a strong case that RED discriminates against non-EU producers of biofuels, such as Asian palm oil.
"Perhaps most importantly, palm oil acts as a substantial driver of economic growth in the developing world, drastically reducing hunger and poverty in regions that actively cultivate this valuable crop.
"It's time for Europe to not only recognize the energy and environment benefits of palm oil, but also the suffering in low-income, tropical countries that palm oil critics continue to perpetuate," said Dr Pehnelt.
Given the obvious predilection of green groups like Greenpeace, FOE and RAN to ignore ecological events of far greater proportions and their ominous manipulation and cherry picking of facts to get consumers and multinational food manufacturers like Unilever and Nestle to ostracize palm oil, the media should have been adequately alerted to the probability that there is more going on beneath the surface than meets the eye with these green groups! THE END. Featured Sponsors Netpardon.com online reputation management
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