Corporate Greed and the Dangers it poses to Rainforests and Animal and Bird Species

Two big corporate firms who cater to the sweet tooth of many are responsible for forest destruction on a very large scale in their greed for palm oil in bulk quantities. Greed is letting these corporate damage some of the rainforests. A case in example is the Leuser Ecosystem of Sumatra in Indonesia. Who is mainly responsible? Corporate and large businesses and their supply chains along with their producers and their middlemen are directly and indirectly responsible for rainforest destruction all over the planet. They are also connected to large scale land grabbing in certain indigenous territories. They are also endangering many species of animals and birds as they are destroying their habitats. Not many people know that deforestation resulting out of the activities and greed of agricultural commodity sectors is the direct source of up to one-fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions. This is because trees and particularly those in the rainforests absorb and then lock away much of the excess carbon on this planet. When rainforests are burnt and bulldozed, hundreds of years’ worth of trapped carbon gets released into the atmosphere in a matter of few minutes. This also destroys indigenous economies and cultures and pushes many animal and bird species to the edge of extinction. It is forcing people into dangerous health issues, not to mention the pittance that they get for working on plantations. What does the COP27, the United Nations’ Climate Change Conference do about this? You may guess. Nothing because the rich that run the world stuff the representative mouths, too.