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I deeply despise people who flippantly dismiss entire swathes of existence for the sole reason they can’t profit off it. Imagine thinking plant pollination as a concept is best addressed by allowing the destruction of nature and having the tech industry engineer a solution that can be parceled off and sold after deciding it wasn’t profitable enough to prevent the pollinators going extinct.

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I have seen the same argument against planting trees too , that tree planting is not profitable and hence it is not a good way to combat global warming ! I mean …

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no see we have to financialise forests via carbon tax credits as industrial offsets. this is good for the environment.

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Ignore the monoculture that results due to “best” financial practices.

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Carbon offset through tree planting is an objective good given the facts of modern existence, any opposing it should become a carbon offset by entering a pit. Just saying.

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