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Re:In Brazil, Amazon Protections Are Slashed and Forests Fall by fiblye on Sunday July 28, 2019 @09:37AM (#20547454)
There are ways to develop an economy other than destroying all of your resources within a generation. Any country that does it is doomed to poverty, and it’s kind of hard to feel sympathy for anyone endorsing such short term thinking.
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Re:In Brazil, Amazon Protections Are Slashed and Forests Fall by andrenth on Sunday July 28, 2019 @09:54AM (#20547541)
Every rich country has done exactly this, so this doomed scenario doesn’t strike me as true.
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