Are limestone hills and caves worth more intact or torn down? Their long-term recurrent benefits for eco-tourism, agriculture and landscape enhancement may be worth more than the one-off gains of quarrying them to make cement.
WOULD we tear down the Unesco World Heritage buildings of Penang and Malacca to build condos? Would we destroy the special rock formations that make up the Unesco Geopark of Langkawi for hotels?
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