Message from @Summī Imperator, 呪い殿
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If one community made a decision that affected several others?
If they can show that damages have taken place, they can sue them or settle some arrangement where the damages are fixed or paid for.
Who enforces that?
And who decides what a forest is worth?
Either a court or a private arbitrator of some kind
How do you gauge how much damage there is from losing a forest which provides food and resources for several communities?
A single tree can be considered priceless
And money will never bring those resources back
So
How do you mitigate this when money isn't enough?
This is why you could make a settlement where the other community provides the lost food source
So you would have a community starve its people?
What?
An industrial community isn't going to have much food
If that community didn't have enough for both, would you have one go hungry?
An "industrial community" as you are imagining it wouldn't choose to damage it's own food source.
It's not the food source to them
It's a good source for the others.
However, you can have food industry
That would be an agricultural community
No, I'm taking about industrialized farming
When money isn't enough.
Aaaaaand if the community were not that sort?
They have food for their people, but not enough for two communities
There is no "money isn't enough"
Much less several.
Hahahahahaha
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Alright. I'll just stop here.
Money isn't enough to replace lives lost, and that's about it
If you actually believe that.
There is no point to talking to you.
You haven't given an example where money wasn't enough
Money can't bring back an entire Forest.
Nor can it mitigate that income.
Yes it can
A forest will produce money forever.
So you would have the other community pay all the money the others could have ever made for all time?
Money can rebuild a forest
No. It can not.