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Re:The Amazon Rainforest Now Emits More Greenhouse Gases Tha... by axlee on Friday May 07, 2021 @10:51PM (#27083305)
Preventing them from fucking it up for pennies. A planet is worth more than whatever they can get from cutting down those trees. I believe in property rights, but fuck property rights when externalities are so huge that they can put the whole world in a dire situation. Property and sovereignty are a man-made concept, they can be undone as quickly as they were done. What matters is that the planet lives.
Re:The Amazon Rainforest Now Emits More Greenhouse Gases Tha... by stale2002 on Friday May 07, 2021 @11:06PM (#27083422)
But wouldn't it be less destructive to simply pay Brazil a large amount of money for that?

A war would probably just damage the forest anyway.

Re:The Amazon Rainforest Now Emits More Greenhouse Gases Tha... by ttyprintk on Saturday May 08, 2021 @02:32AM (#27084497)
I wonder if we’ll cross a line and realize that Brazil’s leaders were proving their deliberation that military action would result in government-ordered destruction.