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Comment by uxcolumbo

Another poster linked to your previous comment regarding the rainforest.

What's your thought process behind your comment:

"If I had a button that would burn that entire jungle down and replace it with a top tier national semiconductor industry, I'd press it twice."

Given the following facts:

- Climate change is real

- The Amazon stores around 15–20 years of global CO2 emissions. Burning it down would release all that.

- It maintains the rainfall system needed by farms and general Brazilian economy

- There is so much biodiversity in the Amazon and so much unexplored. By protecting it, it preserves biological resources and research relevant to food and medicine.

- Many indigenous people live there (2 million?). So it's OK to just destroy their home?

Any why do you need to burn down the Amazon to build a Brazilian semi-conductor industry?

I think it's clear, if Bolsonaro Jr would have won, he'd continue his father's approach to it, i.e. continue with deforestation and loosen environmental rules.

parent uxcolumbo 15 days ago

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