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As soon as you have species that aren't necessarily adapted to the environment,

because palm trees that produce oil, they're endemic to African countries and not Southeast Asia.

As soon as you have a situation like that, you need a lot of, like I said, fertilizers, pesticides,

et cetera, and you have to grow them in monocultures lot of, like I said, fertilizers, pesticides, etc.

And you have to grow them in monocultures to keep them alive.

And that's what creates many, many issues.

Why has the palm oil industry become so destructive in Southeast Asia?

When we're up against such massive environmental issues, how can we scale up our positive impacts to be able to address them more effectively and powerfully?

That's just the tip of the iceberg of what you'll hear today.

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