Palm oil is much more productive than other oil crops 🌴

“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 tons of oil in return. Ollives give us 0.3 tonnes, coconuts give us 0.26 tons. 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. If every company were to follow Ben&Jerry's lead and to use coconut and soybean oil instead of palm. We would need about 5 to 10 times as much land devoted to oil crops. Where is that land going to come from? Coconut is a tropical crop. It's going to come at the expense of tropical habitats that doesn't sound like the sustainability solution. To me. It would be a disaster”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Ritchie on Deforestation in Not the End of the World

In a large-scale consumer survey across the UK population on the perceptions of vegetable oils, palm oil was deemed to be the least environmentally friendly.

It wasn’t even close. 41% of people thought palm oil was ‘environmentally unfriendly,’ compared to 15% for soybean oil, 9% for rapeseed, 5% for sunflower, and 2% for olive oil. 43% also answered ‘Don’t know,’ meaning that almost no one thought it was environmentally friendly. ourworldindata.org/palm-oil

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Taken on: April 13, 2025

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