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People in developed western countries have been buying rainforests to protect the environment for decades: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/mar/24

People in developed western countries have been buying rainforests to protect the environment for decades: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/mar/24/cantwejustbuyalltherainf https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/mar/24/cantwe... I'm not sure how it's being protected though. OTOH the earth has been getting greener recently: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/we-are-making-the-globe-greener/article26147272/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/we-are-making-the-gl... https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100201171641.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100201171641.h... http://www.keepmepostedeu.org/portfolio/growing-forests/ http://www.keepmepostedeu.org/portfolio/growing-forests/

freeflight 8y ago
I remember buying a childrens-print magazine, as a kid in the 80s, that had a bit more expensive special issue, but each sold copy was supposedly used to buy a couple of m² of the rainforest. They marketed it in an "own a piece of the rainforest" way and kid me was super stoked about the idea of owning a piece of rainforest, imagining how I would be living there. I think it might have been Yps [0], but I'm not 100% certain. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yps_(comics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yps_(comics)