“Palm oil is an insanely productive plant. It’s why it has been so successful. It gets incredibly high yields – much higher than any of the other options. One hectare of palm currently gives us 2.8 tonnes of oil in return. Olives give us 0.3 tonnes. Coconuts give us 0.26 tonnes – that’s 10 times less. Groundnuts, just 0.18 tonnes. Think about what that means. **If we were to boycott palm oil and replace it with one of these alternatives, we would need far more farmland**. ([Location 2184](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0C3X6X695&location=2184))” --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[statistics]], [[palm-oil]], [[food-emissions]], [[deforrestation]], [[climate-change]] **Source** -- [[260103133118 - B - Not the End of the World]]