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The ship for "maybe we should not do something lest we disrupt the ecosystem with unintended consequences" has sailed.


The solution to negative unintended consequences is not to trigger more and hope that the next lot are positive.


Maybe a solution to unintended negative consequences from destructive activities that never cared about environmental impact until too late is more so a constructive project with intended positive consequences and specific environmental goals and less so the default alternative of "keep doing those destructive projects as before and stall anything else"




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