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jna_shlast Thursday at 12:19 PM2 repliesview on HN

Never on which table? “Exporting” environmental degradation is an incredibly widely discussed issue. Especially for South America, due to illegal rainforest clearing for soy farming to feed the NA/EU cattle industry, and lithium mining in Argentina, Bolivia and Chile.


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dkgalast Thursday at 2:47 PM

Not just soy farming, a part of which is surprisingly legal in the Brazilian Amazon. Some of the largest problems we have with respect to illegal rainforest deforestation involves logging or, even worse, artisanal gold mining.

mrguyoramayesterday at 1:52 AM

I played a flash game in the mid 2000s about running a McDonalds restaurant and growing your beef in brazil by cutting down all the rainforests.

One of the most fun games to ever deliver a message hah.

Pretty sure it's in the Flashpoint Archive actually, if you want to play it.