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Re:A palm oil alternative could help save rainforests by worldsayshi on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @05:21AM (#25428841)
The solution should be fairly simple. Give wild forest a >0 value by paying people for keeping it wild.

I mean of course it's not a new idea and apparently it's very difficult in practice but it seems like the obvious response to that logic.

Re:A palm oil alternative could help save rainforests by fakedang on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @12:20PM (#25432394)
That would mean paying millions of "backwards" tribal communities millions and possibly billions of dollars which we can't afford (/s) - Governments everywhere

Unfortunately, unless they're a voting group the government can maintain control over, nothing will be done. On the contrary, we have government ministers and bureaucrats around the world likely engaging and actively playing a role in the deforestation of rainforests.