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I imagine it would need to be government funded, not for private enterprise. If the order of magnitude of the costs they mention are to be taken at face value (
by dataflow 5y ago
I imagine it would need to be government funded, not for private enterprise. If the order of magnitude of the costs they mention are to be taken at face value ($80M/year), for the entire world, it would be absolutely trivial for the government to fund, so I don't think expect any commercial enterprise would necessarily be forced to align this with its mission.
- denton-scratch 5y ago> For the entire world, it would be absolutely trivial for the government to fund Which government? Is that some hypothesised World Government? The UK Government runs a lot of the forestry in this country. It is run as a commercial timber operation. The Brazilian and Indonesian governments appear to be committed to commercial exploitation of enormous amounts of old-growth rainforest timber. The Polish and Hungarian governments are also committed to logging old-growth. There's no time left for this kind of dreaming.
- dataflow 5y ago> Which government? Is that some hypothesised World Government? I meant the US government. But you can insert lots of other governments in there, including the UK like you mentioned. > There's no time left for this kind of dreaming. Nobody's dreaming. I'm just talking about the feasibility, not claiming anything about the likelihood.