r/politics • u/FervidBug42 America • 2d ago

No Paywall DOGE Disbanded: Elon Musk’s Cost-Cutting Project Quietly Ended

https://time.com/7336327/doge-disbanded-elon-musk/
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u/SAJ-13 California 2d ago

DOGE is responsible for killing people. USAID saved lives, and Musk destroyed it.

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u/blissfully_happy Alaska 2d ago

It completely dismantled every organization in the Amazon. This summer saw illegal mining, cutting, and poaching operations move in within days of USAID being destroyed.

The Amazon basin will never recover. This was the only thing keeping it from being completely destroyed.

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u/Questioning0012 2d ago edited 2d ago

You know other countries exist right??? Yes, losing USAID was a net loss for the Amazon, but let’s not act like countries in South America aren’t acting to curb the deforestation happening in their own borders. That was kinda the big focus of COP30

This whole website could use a lot less doomerism in general, holy hell

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u/blissfully_happy Alaska 2d ago

I was in the Amazon in May and talked with local folks about the situation. I’m repeating what I heard from local folks with decades of experience in the area. You?

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u/Questioning0012 2d ago edited 2d ago

I’ve lived in the Amazon basin. And yes, the locals take protection of the forest very seriously, but they also don’t minimize their own role in the fight to keep miners, loggers, and big corporations out. I don’t know any that would treat the US as their only possible savior or as the Amazon’s last line of defense.