In 1987, Costa Rica was 21% forest. Today it's 57%.
In the 1990s, Costa Rica passed a law that pays landowners directly for the ecosystem services their forest provides: carbon storage, watershed protection, biodiversity, soil stability. The payments are funded by a tax on fossil fuels.
Keep your trees standing and the government cuts you a check. Clear them and you lose the income.
Nearly a million hectares have been protected or restored under the program. Species that had retreated or disappeared from large parts of the country are recovering. The forest came back because the incentive structure changed, not because people were told to care more.
But it crashed the economy, right? Not at all.
Costa Rica became the top per capita agricultural exporter in Latin America. Tourism built around its forests and biodiversity became one of its largest industries. The economy didn't absorb the cost of keeping the forest. The forest became part of what grows their economy.
This is the version of the story most people never hear, the one where protecting nature and economic growth pointed in the same direction because we humans designed it that way.
It's not forests or the economy and it never had to be.
What’s actually authoritarian is letting California billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg build massive data centers that jack up our electric bills.
As Governor, I’ll ban data centers once and for all with statewide preemption authority.
@TPSIOfficial Fishback is a leftist. He’s already talking about “banning“ data centers.
While I’m not a fan data centers, that rhetoric is not indicative an analytical mind that looks for resolution or solution. It indicates authoritarianism.
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Just a really fun practice. You look forward to it. Becomes spiritual as much as a health practice.
Every morning you watch the sun appear and every morning it blows your mind.
Dana White on his employees' work schedule: "I don’t care if you f*cking do your work at 9 o’clock this morning or 9 o’clock tonight."
"If your kid has a school function, practice, or a game, I hope you’re gonna go. That sh*t is very important to me."
Little Bear is great. I can highly recommend it if you have children.
• Calm, slow scenes (not ADHD cutting between scenes).
• Wholesome setting (mother, father, child). Little Bear is gentle, well-adjusted, and respectful to his parents. Mother Bear is motherly and caring. Father Bear is a classical father (not the “silly dad” that you often see nowadays).
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The establishment is getting desperate. They know we're going to win.
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