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> Better though would be to make it in Brazil's interest to protect the Amazon. We all benefit from it being intact, so we should all chip in to create an econo
by titzer 5y ago
> Better though would be to make it in Brazil's interest to protect the Amazon. We all benefit from it being intact, so we should all chip in to create an economic incentive for the county of Brazil to maintain it.
It's really a sad little pretzel of hell that we (supposedly) need to create economic incentives for every human on Earth to not squander their local resources for short term gain when it is in fact economic incentives that got that ball rolling downhill in the first place. But yeah, I guess we'll find a way to throw globalism and money at a problem created by globalism and money.
- eloff 5y agoI agree it's unfortunate. I don't know of any alternatives to globalism and capitalism that aren't worse though. But it's important to recognize where capitalism fails (tragedy of the commons situations, negative externalities) and address those.