Dr Mike Joy sent me this paper Flex commodities and intertwining world-ecologies: Indonesian palm waste as an environmental fix in the New Zealand dairy industry to read. It’s pretty technical, so I made a graphic summary to share.
It shows how depressing the dairy–palm oil death spiral really is: New Zealand’s droughts drive more palm kernel imports, which fuel deforestation in Indonesia, worsen climate change, and circle back to make our droughts even worse.