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by Yardlink 4318 days ago
Whenever there are ambitious plans for a poor country, people think of all kinds of reasons not to - the environment! the culture! the local economy! people's family homes! But they forget "these people are already screwed!". This canal is a risk with a bigger upside than doing nothing.
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> Whenever there are ambitious plans for a poor country ...

... outsiders impose their ideas on the locals, deciding what is good for them. This project should be entirely up to the people of Nicaragua, especially those who will lose land or livelihood.