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RE: My first birdwatching visit to the Conowingo Dam (and my first steem-atlas post)
A principle of free market environmentalism is "if it pays, it stays". The idea is that humans will protect animals if there is a financial motivation.
At least this would encourage people to come up with creative ideas to protect the environment with some benefit to themselves.
Right. Maybe this approach can't solve all environmental problems, but it solves some.
A good example is the American Bison. The species has seen a strong self-sustaining recovery ever since it became legal to farm them and sell the meat. Another common funding source is tourism.
IMO, creative environmentalists could use Steem rewards to create new revenue streams that give people incentives to protect wildlife and its habitat.