Save The Planet: Kill An Orangutan

Talk about a timely article. I just posted about the way that the "cure" for global warming being pushed by true believers was actually worse than the "disease". Lo and behold, the Telegraph has also started to question the "solution". They noticed the orangutan genocide being committed in the name of "fixing" global warming. The orangutans in Borneo are being eradicated so biodiesel can be produced.

As jungles are rapidly replaced by palm oil plantations, the great apes starve and are hunted, mutilated, burnt and snared by workers protecting their crops.

At a rehabilitation centre run by the charity Borneo Orang-utan Survival, there are more than 600, mostly orphaned babies. Lone Nielsen, the centre's director, estimates that for each of the 227 animals they rescued last year, five more were killed in central Borneo alone.

"There are broken bones, cracked skulls, burns, internal injuries," said Miss Nielsen. "The plantation workers beat them because they want to catch them and the only way you can catch an orang-utan is to knock it unconscious."

Each orphan must be raised to the age of eight by a human "mother" who teaches it to be afraid of rubber snakes and other hazards before it can be released on to an island.

The "children" engage in amusingly human antics - one of them walking with a stick like an old man. In Indonesian "orang-utan" means "forest people" and after humans they are the most intelligent primate.

The true believers have no qualms whatsoever about this. They are saving the planet. Who cares if anything is left when they've finished? Don't worry, though, soon Borneo will be orangutan-free so the biodiesel magnates can flourish. And Canada will be a moonscape (albeit one that stinks of sulfur) to produce Prius batteries. But the planet will have been saved. It has never been easier to rape the planet.

UPDATE: I Really should have included this gem in the blockquote.

A common tactic, campaigners say, is for plantation firms to first burn the forest then buy up the degraded land for a pittance.

There you have it all in a nutshell. Destroy a rainforest and barbecue the orangutans to put "environmentally-friendly" fuel in the gas tank of your Prius while patting yourself on the back for being so eco-conscious. Rape Save the planet.

categories Animals, Energy, Environment, Junk Science | Gaius Monday, 13 August , 2007

  • By Chuck Schulz, Tuesday, 14 August , 2007 @ 1:20 am

    The first thing you learn in an economics class is that a functioning market sends price signals in all directions, and you can’t really be sure what they are saying to whom. The same also is true of an artificial market–in this case the Gore-driven rush to produce and burn biodiesel, no matter what the real environmental costs are:
    for more: http://www.thoughtcops.com/2007/08/13/orangudiesel/

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