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· 4 years ago
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The Amazon has been in danger for at least 30-40 years now in the public consciousness. North America was once full of forests- it has several rainforests of its own and used to have more. Europe too. We built houses and paved over it or chopped it down so we could have what we have. And now that we ripped apart the AC at our desks to sell the copper- the world looks at the Amazon and says “hey- you can’t sell that copper, you’re the last AC in the building and we need you to keep the office cool...” Crazy ideas... why not.... plant our own rainforests- reclaim some of that urban sprawl? Another one? PAY THEM. Yeah. If there’s profit motive to destroy the forest- pay the same or better to keep it. I don’t think we should destroy the Amazon, and I think that foreigners who already have more money than locals get most of the profits from its destruction- but we aren’t all exactly clamoring to donate our houses or convert Amazon warehouses or Walmart’s into forest land.
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guest_
· 4 years ago
I’m saying- whatever the problem is we tend to look somewhere else. The guys cutting down the Amazon- the ones responsible? Largely guys from our own homes. The people primarily benefiting from the products and money from that? Right at home. The law makers and politicians and companies? Here at home again. And when it comes time to give something up or do something to fix the problem? That we want to happen somewhere else- in someone else’s life. Land in the Amazon is about $2000 an acre. For less than $200 a month you could own some. If even a fraction of people bought one acre a year- we could protect billions of acres in less than a decade. We can help with these problems but we... don’t.
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captainjackharknes
· 4 years ago
No! Bad politics!
