Re: politics and food - \"everything i want to do is illegal\"
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The very reason lions and elephants are having survival problems is that there is demand for their skins/tusks, but the supply is artificially suppressed by government.
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No, it's because free market forces plundered whatever they could, threating elephants with extinction before the practice was banned by government. There was simply more money in it that way. BTW, elephants have been doing much better since the ban and proper policing.
I guess rainforests are having survival problems because the government is restricting supply of rainforest timber and cattle ranches in Brazil and Indonesia? Or maybe because rich corporations who don't give a rat's arse come in and plunder what they can to make a quick buck. This is the free market at work with or without a government. People are greedy and don't think or care about the long term or external effects where money is to be made. This is a massive flaw in capitalism.
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