If I had a button that would burn that entire jungle down and replace it with a top tier national semiconductor industry, I'd press it twice.

Only university leftists care about the Amazon to the point they sacrifice national interests for it. Completely disconnected from reality.

> Europe is not worried about the trees in the Amazon, they want the subsoil.

Dr. Enéas Carneiro.

It's all about the rare earths.

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alpineman 42 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

You need to go for a walk in nature. There’s more to life than semi-conductors. Sad!

	▲	matheusmoreira 40 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Wanna trade? Transfer all your technology to us. We'll give you the Amazon.

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dachris an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Seems like a false dichotomy, don't see how sacrificing jungle would get Brazil a top-tier semiconductor industry.

And I guess the native peoples living in the Amazon are not university leftists.

I'm not into Brazilian politics, the little I know seems to indicate that it's a choice between a rock and a hard place (both seem to have corruption allegations). The objective aspect I can judge is whom Trump strongly supports. US influence in South America is a pretty bloody chapter in history.

	▲	matheusmoreira an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> don't see how sacrificing jungle would get Brazil a top-tier semiconductor industry. It wouldn't. It was just a rhetorical device to express the fact I care far more about national industrial and economic development than some jungle. > US influence in South America is a pretty bloody chapter in history. I agree, but Lula's no paragon here. He's had ~20 years to undo the neoliberal privatization policies enacted as of the Washington Consensus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Consensus Instead of actually reindustrializing Brazil, he anesthetized the population with handouts and lined his pockets. Meanwhile, banks are literally raking in record profits.