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> Why do governments not start an international reforestation / ecological fund and pay some of their GDP into it they are busy pouring their gdp into competin
by andrekandre 4y ago
> Why do governments not start an international reforestation / ecological fund and pay some of their GDP into it
they are busy pouring their gdp into competing with one another...unfortunately,our current economic system is based on endless growth and competition instead of equity and cooperation; i doubt anything will happen until its too late...
- EGreg 4y agoExactly. Competition instead of collaboration means that organizations can’t meaningfully get together and solve large externalities before it’s too late. Same with wars. We need to get our governments to work together and get things done, as they did with the Toronto Protocol but over and over. The United Nations can work to implement software-like release cycles of more and more mechanisms that facilitate cooperation between countries, even as they bicker. Sadly, I do not think such solutions will be implemented top-down, and the bottom-up ones may take too long. But we can try !!!