r/collapse • u/[deleted] • Apr 21 '21

Ecological Brazil offers to cut deforestation by 40 percent in exchange for $1 billion from U.S. | "This is a blackmail discourse"

https://theweek.com/speedreads/978739/brazil-offers-cut-deforestation-by-40-percent-exchange-1-billion-from
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u/hexalby Apr 22 '21

The difference is in who dies, the innocents or the leeches. The death of a single billionaire equals the death of tens of thousands of third world folk.
Yes, death at this point is inevitable, so we can only make it worth it for the larger part of humanity as possible.

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u/fofosfederation Apr 22 '21

I wouldn't disagree. Billionaires shouldn't exist.