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whateveriguess··on Combatting Mass Clear-Cutting in Congo
Nope, just a long-time listener, first-time caller kinda deal... was just surprised that everyone seemed to agree with your first comment, but took such issue on depopulation.
whateveriguess··on Combatting Mass Clear-Cutting in Congo
> Congo is one of the countries, that is already receiving foreign aid, so claiming, that it is not receiving any is simply a lie.

> The biggest issue of all of the foreign aid is corruption. The output of aid in most cases makes few mega rich billionaires from Africa and total poverty for rest.

One must be careful with this narrative. Foreign aid received by developing countries is dwarfed (more than an order of magnitude) by unequal exchange, illicit trade flows and trade misinvoicing in the opposite direction, often allowed by these corrupt leaders to their own benefit and that of multinational corps, and enforced via rigged systems such as the IMF/World Bank/WTO.

Other comments have responded robustly to your depopulation comment.