Change in Your Palm: The Borneo Rainforest

Climate One

News Commentary, Social Sciences, Earth Sciences, News, Science

4.7 • 583 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2009

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Biologist Birute Mary Galdikas discusses the connection between Indonesian rainforests and climate change. In conversation with Greg Dalton, Commonwealth Club Vice President, founder of Climate One Deforestation in Indonesia, driven largely by large palm oil plantations, has caused that country to become the third largest emitter of greenhouses gases in the world. Galdikas, who studied under anthropologist Louis Leakey, has been studying orangutans in Borneo for nearly 40 years. She urges people to be aware of the impact palm oil, and biofuels, are having on one of the world’s largest carbon sinks. This program was recorded at The Commonwealth Club on April 27, 2009 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.6	Welcome to this podcast of Climate One at the Commonwealth Club.
0:35.4	I'm Greg Dalton, founder of Climate One.
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0:54.9	Welcome to this podcast of Climate One at the Commonwealth Club of California.
0:58.7	I'm your host, Greg Dalton.
1:00.5	My guest today is Biratei Mary Galdecost, a field biologist who has spent 38 years in Borneo
1:06.2	studying orangutans.
1:08.0	She's the author of Reflections of Eden and a protege of Kenyan archaeologist Louis
1:12.8	Idley. So Dr. Galdecost, welcome to the Commonwealth Club.
1:15.9	Well, thank you. Thanks for coming. So let's begin. I think most people mention the rainforest.
1:22.2	They probably would think of the Amazon first, though Indonesia clearly has a very large and
1:27.0	important rainforest. You've been there
1:29.1	for a very long time. What have you seen as far as the impacts of climate change in Borneo and how
1:35.7	Borneo fits into the climate change equation? Then we can come around and talk about the
1:40.6	orangutans. Well, I can't speak too directly about climate change,
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