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Re:The Amazon Rainforest Is Fast Approaching a Point of No R... by throwaway0a5e on Thursday July 29, 2021 @10:21AM (#27996880)
If middle ages Brazilians knew how the Europeans were deforesting Europe they'd have probably said the same thing.
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Re:The Amazon Rainforest Is Fast Approaching a Point of No R... by tluyben2 on Thursday July 29, 2021 @10:41AM (#27997106)
Sure, but is that a good argument? We used to make mistakes because we did not know better (for a long time anyway) so now, even though we do know better, we can let everyone make the same mistakes? Out of some weird sense of avoiding time-travelling hypocrisy? How far does that go?
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