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Old 08-24-2014, 12:09 PM  
Bladewire
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Originally Posted by Sly View Post
While I agree that poachers need to be dealt with, severely, it does not solve the money problem.

It's very easy for us to tear apart the Africans for destroying their animals and the Brazilians for destroying their rain forests, but they have real issues just like we do: money. They want a nice living as well. They will try to get it by using the resources that they have, which just so happens to be something that the more developed world finds beautiful but doesn't want to financially support.
I wont pretend to know the ins and outs of the African mentality towards their environment, after all we have people in our culture who would happily recreate Easter Island out of the North American continent if we let them.

I don't tear apart the Africans for their plight. It seems so many great thinkers have tried to find the key change their mentality and circumstance but so far nothing has stuck long enough to make a great difference.
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