Oil companies have plenty of horrible environmental impacts, but direct deforestation isn’t really one. If we look at Amazon deforestation for instance:
Extensive cattle ranching is the number one culprit of deforestation in virtually every Amazon country, and it accounts for 80% of current deforestation
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The #1 cause of deforestation is animal agriculture. Go Vegan.
Mate me going vegan ain’t going stop BP or Exxon. Eat them instead
This comment did way less than going Vegan.
Oil companies have plenty of horrible environmental impacts, but direct deforestation isn’t really one. If we look at Amazon deforestation for instance:
https://wwf.panda.org/discover/knowledge_hub/where_we_work/amazon/amazon_threats/unsustainable_cattle_ranching/