THE drive for “green energy” in the developed world is having the perverse effect of encouraging the destruction of tropical rainforests. From the orang-utan reserves of Borneo to the Brazilian Amazon, virgin forest is being razed to grow palm oil and soybeans to fuel cars and power stations in Europe and North America.

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The aim is to help meet Kyoto protocol targets for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions.

So to meet their own Kyoto quotas, they’ll encourage the destruction of someone else’s environment

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