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chrisseaton on Feb 19, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Problem with Palm Oil

> if the market value of a healthy forest is greater than that of palm oil, there will be incentives to destroy the forest

No the idea is the opposite - if the market value of healthy forest is greater than that of palm oil the idea is people will be incentivised to not destroy the forest because it's worth more than the palm oil.

shawnz on Feb 19, 2020 [–]

I think they just made a typo and meant to say the opposite statement.

wwweston on Feb 20, 2020 | [–]

Correct, edited the statement to actually make sense.

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