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They're just doing what other continents did hundreds or thousands of years ago. If you want to save the forests, make them economically more valuable than con
by linuxftw 4y ago
They're just doing what other continents did hundreds or thousands of years ago. If you want to save the forests, make them economically more valuable than converting them into other uses.
If there's 100M iphones in the world that retail for around $1000 each, that's $100B dollars. We could have invested that money into building some kind of park that welcomes visitors. No, instead we chose as a society to take pretty photos for instagram for fake internet points.
- Sporktacular 4y agoThey have a value that greater than just their economic value! The environment created us, we created economics. It's an artificial concept that will never capture the true value of nature.
- linuxftw 4y ago> They have a value that greater than just their economic value! Then investing at the economic value would be profitable, and people should clearly do this.
- Sporktacular 4y agoPerhaps you misunderstood. They have non-economic value, that is more valuable than their economic value alone. Economic investment may not yield an economic return. Not everything reduces to a price tag.