Aviation uses around a million metric tons of jet fuel per day.

If you thought habitat destruction from palm oil was bad, that would be nothing compared to coconut oil making up any significant fraction of jet fuel.

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not_a_bot_4sho 3 hours ago | parent [-]

The question is which habitat destruction is worse? That which is already happening at scale for oil, versus what would happen if we lean into this in any meaningful way.

I don't think the answer is obvious. And I think many of us are blind or numb to environmental harms of oil outside of carbon exhaust and the occasional spill, simply because we've accepted it as status quo.

	▲	anfilt 38 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		An oil well is quite small Area wise compared to the amount of acreage you would need for a coconut plantations to replace the same amount of energy output. The issue with oil is CO2 and other green house gases and then the occasional oil spill or leak. Land area wise they don’t take up much space