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Originally Posted by redpoint5
I like the other points you made, but what in the world are you talking about here?
People slashing and burning rain forests aren't poor because us greedy people have robbed them and driven them to poverty; they were never wealthy in the first place. It's their adoption of technology that has allowed them to quickly destroy forests for short-term profits. See any similarity with that behavior and the rest of humanity?
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*The impoverished,subsistence level families,living on the margins of the rain forest are trying to survive.If I were them I'd be doing exactly the same.It is what it is.
*Compared to the 'burning' I and my neighbors are doing each year,you wouldn't even be able to discern what the poor people are doing.The signal-to-noise ratio would be too vast.
*From beyond our solar system you would conceivably be able to see what the 'civilized' people were doing.The entire planet would be smoke and fire.A single yellow pixel as viewed from Voyager.