CTET Feb 2014 paper 01 unseen passage previous year questions with mcq quiz
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.
Our consumption of palm oil is rocketing Commitments from various governments to increase the amount of biofuels being sold are pushing this rise in demand, because they’re seen as an attractive quick fix to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
India wanted 20 percent of its diesel to be bio-diesel by 2012. The irony is that these attempt to reduce the impact of climate change could actually make things worse-clearing forests and draining and burning ‘peatlands’ to grow palm oil which releases more carbon emissions than burning fossil fuels. But this phenmomenal growth of the palm oil industry spells disaster for local communities, biodiversity and climate change as palm plantations encroach further and further into forested areas where the emission of greenhouse gases is largely due to deforestation. For example, much of the current and predicted oil palm expansion is taking place on forested ‘peatlands’. Peat locks up huge amounts of carbon, so clearing ‘peatlands’ by draining and burning release huge greenhouse gases. The Roundtable on Sustainable P Palm Oil (RSPO) had established clear ethical and ecological standards for producing palm oil.
But since then, forest destruction has continued unabated.