• Madison420@lemmy.world
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    A single gbu57 is 20ish million dollars. To come close to damaging any of these sites you’d expect 5-10 per strike iirc there’s 7 bases with hits so 7x5=35 7x10=70, 35 x20 700 million or 1.4 billion.

    From there or depends on what they tossed into the holes after they made them, I’m gonna guess fuel air bombs.

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    The worst part is that many of these forestry jobs paid for themselves with tourism revenue.

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      Don’t need em if we’re gonna clear cut them so new golf courses can be built anyway. Unexploited land cannot exist, and those jobs were in the way of that.

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          Are they giving the ultra rich a new playground, or place to put a factory, helicopter pad, etc? If no, they aren’t exploited enough.

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            https://youtu.be/86G3IL-w4qA

            They’ve poisoned and clear-felled and strip-mined this earth
            Made a cess pit of the paradise that was ours by birth
            They’ve raped and they’ve burned and they’ve plundered our world
            Our banner of resistance will now be unfurled

            We’re nailing our colours right up to the mast
            The sands of time are running out fast
            To stop the nutters destroying our home
            Kidnapped from our children from whom it’s on loan

            Enough is enough is enough of their greed
            Mass eco-defence is what the earth needs
            Terra-ist action all over the land
            To stop the lunacy the rich have got planned

            E.L.F. strike in the dead of night
            See the bulldozers are burning bright
            Construction area totally trashed
            Earth-rape machinery utterly smashed

            Some might say that we’re too “extreme”
            But all we want is air and water that’s clean
            And a green earth not a desert is what we need Don’t let them sacrifice it on their altar of greed

            Rise up and conquer your fear
            They can be stopped like Jose-Maria
            Our world a toxic slag-heap they will make
            So take whatever action you feel it’s right to take

            It’s up to you it’s up to me to make a stand
            Our generation holds it’s future in it’s hands
            Time to fight back let them do their worst
            Green anarchy in action - put the earth first!

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        Curious how they’ll try to hide the oil derricks on the courses considering how much public space they want to sell so they can start drilling. Or maybe they’ll just be gilded with sponsor logos on the side.

    • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
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      Nearly every job they cut was like that. The government only doesn’t make money if you’re an idiot businessman looking in - it generates HUGE returns for the population over time. Or, it did.

      It always could’ve been better.

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    It will cost billions if not trillions. But that money goes into the pockets of rich people so it’s okay.