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Saving the f#$%ing rainforests with Shara Ticku of C16 Biosciences

How I Built This with Guy Raz

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The Problem With Palm Oil

Hum oil is a great product, effective, useful, except there's one huge problem with it. The tree can only grow within about five to 10 degrees of the equator. To meet this growing demand, growers have been slashing and burning tropical rain forest. That emits billions of tons of carbon dioxide emissions into the air,. It results in the killing directly or indirectly of the wildlife that lives there because these rainforest are massive biodiversity hotspots. And it displaces the indigenous communities, which are in that land.

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