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[-] bampop@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Imagine what a tiny increment in their profit margins this will produce, what an infinitesimal impact it will have on the wealth, and standard of living of a handful of individuals. And for this they will fuck up an irreplaceable natural heritage which is there for the whole world. It shows that the value such people place on our coexistence with the natural world is zero or less. Maybe they hate it because they can't understand why normal people love it. Maybe it's just that they will feel richer, in a relative sense, when they have made us all poorer.

[-] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Trust, I am well aware. Part of a conservation degree is economics, because conservation directly has to argue in economic terms in order to persuade governments and stakeholders for support of passing legislation.

Unfortunately, the powers that be seem to have stopped caring entirely, ceasing to even performatively care. They want it all and they don't wish to negotiate anymore.

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