P&G

P&G have agreed to ensure their products contain 100% sustainable Palm Oil by 2020, but is it enough?

 

As many of you in the Environmental world know, Greenpeace recently launched a campaign against the global products giant, Proctor and Gamble (P&G), with activists climbing to the top of the P&G headquarters and unfurling a massive banner. The campaign attacked P&G's use of palm oil from unsustainable sources in its products. Unsustainable palm oil is a leading cause of deforestation in Indonesia and Borneo. These deforestation leads to climate change as well as the loss of habitat and subsequent abuse and murder of animals who call these forests home such as Orangutans  and Tigers.

 

 

 

 

 

 Palm Oil plantations and deforestation have also been linked to severe human rights violations. P%G's pledge to stamp out deforestation from its products is a good start, however, by the time that 2020 rolls around, will it be to late?. Will the impact of deforestation and climate change be irreversible?. Many environmental groups believe this to be the case. So the question remains, what else can be done to stop the destruction of these unique and diverse habitats?

 

 

 

 

 

Well that power lies in your hands. Make sure that you buy products that do not contain palm oil or palm oil that is sourced from sustainable sources. Send a message to companies and businesses that you will not stand idly by while habitats and animals are wiped from the planet never to return again. You are the consumer, you have the power. Do not let the money hungry mega companies of this world wipe out a valuable area of the natural world in order to line their pockets with money and increase they profit margin. Help save this area of the world for your children and their children.