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Next step, mine the rainforrest with sound detecting landmines? Technical solutions to social problems - any examples where this worked?


Exactly. Not to mention that some other guy in this thread said that in Brazil now all forestry equipment is sold with GPS tracking, so there's literally zero need for such a device regardless.

If they want people to stop chopping down forests they need to provide them with a differnt, viable source of income. If I was living in deep poverty and there was a forest near me I'd chop it down, no question about it.


The sole voice of reason- thank you.

This money should be invested into fusion or solar research - if energy is cheap- somebody will find a vay to convert it into fast vat grown rainforrest- and voila-> Unemployed drunks protesting before the automatic growthlab and sawmill.

Its very hard to prevent behaviour thats economical. Its way easier to subvert the economics behind that.

If you want to save nature- compress agriculture into vats. If you want to compress agriculture into vats and buildings, you need cheap energy.

Solving at source, instead of gimick-gasms.


>Unemployed drunks protesting before the automatic growthlab and sawmill.

Or politicized unemployed people chopping your head off because you took their jobs and gave nothing back. It goes both ways.

I don't think you understook what I meant.

By giving them an alternative source of income, I meant the workers, not the corporations.


Maybee they can get jobs as click-AI- basically providing non-savant intelligence to AI-Projects.

But my point still stands, if growning local and fast in vats- rainforrest wood would be no more economical viable.

No pressure on any fusion researchers- but you could really save the planet right about now.

https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/3018/whatever-happ...




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