[ergsef]

There's a lot of nature to protect in Antarctica, and there are very strict rules. This guy is selfishly flaunting those rules and just paying to get rid of the consequences. Considering he's got a personal plane and pilot's license at 19 he obviously has rich parents who can buy his way out of trouble.

Donating to charity is not impressive if you're still rich after you donate. Me giving $20 to a homeless person is a bigger blow to my personal wellbeing than this guy's "donation".

[ryandrake]

> This guy is selfishly flaunting those rules and just paying to get rid of the consequences.

Heads up: You probably mean he is "flouting" those rules, not "flaunting." Different word.

[dragonwriter]

> This guy is selfishly flaunting those rules

“flouting” the rules actually.

Loosely:

Flaunting: ostentatiously displaying

Flouting: ostentatiously defying

[scotty79]

> There's a lot of nature to protect in Antarctica

I'm sure the entire Chilean military base with all the fuel they burn there and garbage they produce is built there specifically to protect Antarctic nature from occasional idiots in small planes.

He obviously can afford it, like the Chilean government could afford to put unnecessary military base there. Somehow when some government is stupidly splurging it's good and fine because they do it in accordance with rules, that they written themselves.

[dragonwriter]

> I'm sure the entire Chilean military base with all the fuel they burn there and garbage they produce is built there specifically to protect Antarctic nature from occasional idiots in small planes.

Its mostly there because it includes Chile’s main scientific/meteorological research station in Antarctica and the airfield providing for personnel and supply transport for both that station and the nearby stations of other countries.

[netsharc]

Do you always talk out of your ass, Scott?

In regards to "rules they wrote themselves": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_on_Environmental_Prot...

[scotty79]

And which point of the protocol allows Chile to build a military base there?

[dragonwriter]

The base was established in 1969, the protocol was signed in 1991 and entered into force in 1998.

[scotty79]

So why is it still there? They should pack up theirs stuff and go back home in 1998 at the latest.

[dragonwriter]

Because its largely a scientific/meteorological research station and an airport serving that station and the many others of different countries on King George Island, and because nothing in the Protocol prohibits it?

[llbbdd]

Does the relative impact on the donator in some way change how much $20 is worth to the recipient?