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0 pointsRexxar3y ago0 comments

You got it reversed, developed countries have stopped to use their forest when they industrialized and start to use coal/oil instead of wood and when increase in food production make the use of less productive land unnecessary. Thinking you can be richer by destroying Amazonia is pure delusion.

For example, the forest is bigger in France now that is was 1000 years ago : http://geoconfluences.ens-lyon.fr/geoconfluences/images/arti...

Destroying forest is a short term low-productivity cash grab. It will not make any country rich.

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matheusmoreira3y ago· 2 in thread

> Thinking you can be richer by destroying Amazonia is pure delusion.

What? Literally any economical activity you can think of would be a better use for that massive amount of land. If you told me I could have a billion dollar fab built in my country but the only place I could build it was in the middle of the amazon, it wouldn't take me even one second to decide.

Did you know there's oil reserves in the amazon? People in the government keep making noises about that. Every once in a while I see news about some environmental drama concerning the extraction of petroleum in that region. I wish they'd just do it already.

RexxarOP3y ago

I don't see the point of your examples

- A billion dollar fab will be 0.00001% of the forest.

- Oil can be extracted without destroying forest

matheusmoreira3y ago

Billion dollar fabs and oil rigs will create a ton of jobs and attract a lot of people to their surroundings. That means housing, local services to serve and sustain that population, local infrastructure paid for by increased tax revenue. The increased economic activity will attract more capital and start a self-sustaining cycle that will develop and improve vast areas. Everyone will want to be there to get a piece of that prosperity.

I know because I literally live in a city where this happened. Steel industry. When my parents came here, it pretty much was a jungle. Now they call it the Steel Valley.

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