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Re:Amazon fires: Record number burning in Brazil rainforest by nikivi on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @04:22AM (#20755403)
The sad part of reading news like this is the feeling of paralysis and helplessness of watching it all unfold.

There are no actionable calls to action or advice laid out in articles like these.

Awareness is good though. Perhaps it inspires people to work directly on solving nature's greatest problems. A friend of mine made a GitHub curated list about tech companies working in this space.

https://github.com/nglgzz/awesome-clean-tech

Re:Amazon fires: Record number burning in Brazil rainforest by enibundo on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @04:37AM (#20755472)
Thanks for your github Nikivi.

I remember asking this question some time ago and it got ignored by people here (of course): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12864591

If it doesn't include the words: dividend, stock, option, etc. it doesn't work here.

Re:Amazon fires: Record number burning in Brazil rainforest by emblaegh on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @04:42AM (#20755495)
If the government is not comitted to the preservation of the Amazon, then there's really nothing that can be done. One could consider imposing international sanctions, but the chance of that backfiring would be quite high IMHO.
Re:Amazon fires: Record number burning in Brazil rainforest by pjc50 on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @04:55AM (#20755560)
Individual action is very limited. Collective action is the only way forwards, which means you're going to have to get political, and convince other people that it's real, important, and deserving of action.
Re:Amazon fires: Record number burning in Brazil rainforest by chrdlu on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @03:41PM (#20760854)
Money talks, if companies can make billions of dollars from individual $10-20 subscriptions, I don't see why we can't do it for climate change/deforestation!

I personally use Project Wren (https://projectwren.com/) to offset my own footprint and a bit more!

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Re:Amazon fires: Record number burning in Brazil rainforest by fredley on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @05:02AM (#20755591)
There have been highly effective, totally peaceful revolutions too.[0] Violence does not have to be the answer.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_revolution

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Re:Amazon fires: Record number burning in Brazil rainforest by RobertoG on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @06:22AM (#20755961)
Are you aware that your comments can be illegal in some jurisdictions? Just saying.

Anyway, my two cents, in my opinion, not enough effort is being done in finding an alternative to livestock farming. We should be pushing for cultured meat(1), it can't arrive fast enough.

It should be cheaper than livestock, with a lot less environmental footprint and eliminate incentives to burnt forest to get pasture land.

A few Manhattan projects level or prize X or whatever in that direction is a no-brainer in my opinion.

1. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultured_meat

Re:Amazon fires: Record number burning in Brazil rainforest by CraneWorm on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @05:10AM (#20755622)
... just don't do anything that would land you in jail.

> They will call you eco-terrorists, like they called french revolutionaries murderers,

In US they will call you a last Tuesday's shooter.

Re:Amazon fires: Record number burning in Brazil rainforest by an_ko on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @05:38AM (#20755753)
Seems like the wrong tool. I want them to understand. I don't want to shoot them.