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OGUncleDonkey t1_j0rxpgy wrote

Can’t read it. Got the cliff notes?

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a_seventh_knot t1_j0rye0f wrote

why do people keep sharing links to paywall sites?

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Sacrifice_bhunt t1_j0s0f7l wrote

Replying to OGUncleDonkey (#965,763)

A few key paragraphs:

“The idea behind the Tren Maya is to draw the tourists of Cancún, Playa del Carmen and Tulum to some of the poorest parts of southern Mexico, luring them away from the beach and toward the rest of the Yucatán.”

“The archaeologists face a succession of almost impossible decisions. They’ve been directed to scour Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula for undiscovered ruins and to rank them on a scale of one to four — from negligible importance to profound historical value. Anything judged less than a four will almost certainly be bisected by the rail line or destroyed altogether. The losses so far include millennia-old Maya homes and temples.”

“It’s so rich in archaeology that the only way to preserve everything would be to construct an upper story for the whole population,” said archaeologist Ivan Šprajc, a scholar of Maya civilization.”

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helodriver87 t1_j0s41jo wrote

It's also going to cause serious damage and destabilization in the underwater cave systems of the region. I give it a decade before a cave ceiling gives way and swallows a train.

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joyfullypresent OP t1_j0s6p5y wrote

Replying to a_seventh_knot (#965,796)

Do you know how to get around the problem with Reddit not accepting "gift" links? They just started rejecting them...It's a fascinating interactive article, though. I won't post any more links from there until the problem is fixed.

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9Wind t1_j0s9il0 wrote

Replying to OGUncleDonkey (#965,763)

AMLO wants to "develop" the Yucatan with a tourism train, forcing it to be built by the military instead of the company that won the contract.

This train runs through archeological sites, which angers the population of the Yucatan which a large chunk is Mayan.

Archeologists are rushing to excavate sites before the government comes and tears them down.

What is not covered:

The Yucatan and Chiapas have a long history of attacking the Mexican government for intruding on its territory and heritage, and peace has only happened when the government does not touch the Yucatan at all.

With racism against indigenous in Mexico increasing with "whitexicans" showing up to disrespect Mayan sites, this can very easily start another caste war or Chiapas rebellion.

This is probably why AMLO brought in the military to build it, he is trying to start an incident with the Mayans in Mexico.

You can only guess the reason why.

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abez1 t1_j0scxex wrote

They'll cut the trees down to park in the shade

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clrbrk t1_j0sh0oh wrote

What do you mean what’s it got to be built? You’ve got to build bypasses.

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GBreezy t1_j0shcbh wrote

Replying to a_seventh_knot (#965,796)

Why do redditors complain about the quality of journalism going down when they refuse to make it possible for newspapers to pay their journalists? Sorry, they are "paying them in exposure".

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LeapIntoInaction t1_j0socrv wrote

With all due respect (very little), most of the world that you can live in has been lived in for thousands of years, and you will always have to deal with the fact that you'd like to live there too.

We can't just exterminate everyone to make the world a lovely museum and, if you want to see level 11 of Crete, you're going to have to go through the 23 levels above it first, anyway. London, Paris, Athens and Rome are built over such incredible history, you have no idea. That goes for about everywhere else as well.

Record what you can.

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GBreezy t1_j0sq9d3 wrote

Replying to zzyul (#967,207)

The amount of redditors with ad blockers is high. Add in the amount of money made off internet ads is incredibly low. Non-cable new channels are required to air news in their FCC licensing and is a loss leader. The entire plot of the movie Network is about that.

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HKChad t1_j0t1dbo wrote

Replying to helodriver87 (#966,078)

I give it less than that. I dive those caves and some are only 10ft deep, that's not much ceiling. They are ruining a unique place for a stupid train that's just a money laundering scheme and will never actually be useful.

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vhw_ t1_j0t6l9d wrote

Replying to 9Wind (#966,375)

What a dumb take. Source: I'm mexican.

The asshole president is just building it 'cause it's a way to steal money. And also connect his finca with the rest of the roads

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djkuhl t1_j0t93cx wrote

Mexicans build tourist rail line by destroying Mayan ruins tourists are paying to see

How dumb is this president?

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TrailChems t1_j0ttsed wrote

Replying to zzyul (#967,207)

Nothing bad ever happened from having corporations rule the media narrative, right?

Journalists should be beholden to the general public, not private institutions.

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AzerFox t1_j0v93lw wrote

All of the Earth is treasured by someone so by building anything you ruin someone else's treasures.

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lionhart280 t1_j0wbbl4 wrote

This likely will be largely net positive.

If you get say, 10,000 sites on the map and you have to path through 500 of them, and you rank them and choose the least useful sites, that's not so bad.

In return the tourism injection funnels money into all the other 9500 sites, giving you money to preserve those really well.

It's a lot like how the "pay momey to shoot an endangered animal" programs in Africa are actually protecting the species, cause the money they make for 1 animal dying pays enough to protect and save 1000 others.

And now that it's profitable, locals have a vested interest in preserving them because it brings in money.

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