[hnbad]

Creating investment opportunities. Also green-washing.

From the "activist"'s company's website:

> We are committed to returning capital and giving 100% returns within 1 decade. With long-term returns of up to 300% within 25 years, for those who are seeking portfolio options. We are open to exclusivity agreements and long-term contracts linked to all project commodities (Offsets, ESG certified products, farming outputs, etc.)

Note "farming outputs". A big problem with the Amazon has been rainforest being burned down to make room for farmland and pasture used for exports, so having the indigenous groups do it instead of standing in the way makes it more palatable, especially when you can also point to "conservation efforts" like turning their existing sustainable forestry into carbon offset processes and scaling up their subsistence farming for export.

So in short, they're sustainable subsistence farmers living comfortably on a GDP of zero while caring for their environment and we need to change that because a GDP of zero means you can't make money off of them. Give it twenty years and their land will be fully privatized and sold off to some external corporation and they'll all be impoverished because they can't use their land anymore and are now "unemployed" and own nothing.