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Sowing perversion

Dec 9, 2021
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Sembrando Vida (Sowing Life), a governmental reforestation program in Mexico, offered landowners a couple hundred dollars a month to plant trees on their land. It caused the loss of a forest area the size of New York City as farmers ran to clear their plots to make space for the saplings. Further proof that good intentions and lofty slogans are fertile ground for perverse incentives, more than Vida.

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