[Spaceships] Million Merchant Marathon

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by scc

It's more like a real world problem when dealing with developing nations is getting them to avoid the mistake the West made developing. Sure, cutting down all the tress for farms is what the West did, but we now KNOW it causes all sorts of long term problems. Same thing for car dependent infrastructure or using coal/oil to power your country, but getting developing nations to listen is basically impossible.

The reason it's hard is because the option with long term problems is short term cheap. If you're willing to make your preferred option cheaper, they'll use your preferred option. This costs a lot of money... but nowhere near as much money as terraforming.