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by chii 1959 days ago
> Or maybe simply selling tusks is profitable and there does not need to be a feedback loop for elephants to go extinct.

but that's not logical, because if selling tusks is profitable, then more people will want to join in, thus increasing the number of tusks being sold (implying more elephants being killed for it). Until profit goes away due to drop of demand at least.