The people profiting off of this don’t care about the sustainability of their actions. Once they’ve sucked the land dry, they’ll just use their profits to do it somewhere else.
The only people who lose are the poor people who are stuck with the shitty land.
While there are very notorious exceptions, a lot of the landowners and politicians committing and allowing this crime come from families who have lived in the territory for generations without having ever loved it, and would rather die rich in a desert than letting their children inherit green lands.
“Get in, get rich, get out.”
The people profiting off of this don’t care about the sustainability of their actions. Once they’ve sucked the land dry, they’ll just use their profits to do it somewhere else.
The only people who lose are the poor people who are stuck with the shitty land.
While there are very notorious exceptions, a lot of the landowners and politicians committing and allowing this crime come from families who have lived in the territory for generations without having ever loved it, and would rather die rich in a desert than letting their children inherit green lands.