Paul Rosolie: observation

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…So the mission is clear. The mission is very clear, and the problem is that right now we’ve been playing defense and sustaining losses. Either we need to inspire enough people that the donor program goes through the roof, and instead of having several thousand donors we have 50,000 donors and we raise—we need $20 million to save the rest of the corridor. We’d raise $20 million overnight with enough people. Or we need one of these people who has the resources to come in like Batman and just go, “I want the park named after me and I’m just going to give you the $20 million.” And then we do it tomorrow, and then we make a documentary about how we saved a river and the tribe and the monkeys. But right now, we’re… Yeah, right now we’re begging on the side of the road for enough change to buy bullets so that we can stay alive. So these narcos, they’re… there’s a kind of distributed network where a bunch of them are pretending to be farmers. They’re holding onto the land and then maybe they start planting cocaine on the land— …slowly, and they build the airstrips. Are they trying to stay under the canopy— …with the airstrip?…

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