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To be fair, if the US can’t make the guarantee that some wannabe dictator will slip into power after the next election cycle, who can?
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If we want them to stop developing the rainforest for economic reasons, then we need to give them an alternative. The fact is, the whole world needs the Amazon as a carbon sink. It seems like a worthy trade to me. They’re helping all of us, and if they ever stop, the rest of the world can just cut the funding.
The US is just asking to be the most influential country in the world, nothing to fear!
It’s not like the rich countries are self-evidently sober and stable in their politics and climate impacts. The richest one just had their own wannabe fascist and has both been responsible for a large part of emissions and rarely met their climate goals.
There are many arguments to be made here but this isn’t one. The money can have conditions attached to it. For example, give an amount now and agree to some target being reached within 6 months and so on.
I think it makes sense though. Developing countries need to use their own resources to develop, but richer countries are guilt-tripping them not to without providing any alternatives, and they need these countries for the carbon credits 😬
Why does the this life feel like a southpark episode? And what is the safeword? I want out!
Shit nature, me too
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has told developed countries to put their money where their mouth is when it comes to protecting the world’s remaining tropical forests, as major rainforest nations demanded hundreds of billions of dollars of climate financing and a greater role in how those resources are spent.
Brazil, Indonesia and the DRC are home to 52% of the world’s remaining primary tropical forests, vast carbon sinks which play a critical role in efforts to control climate change.
In a declaration entitled “United For Our Forests”, the governments of those countries reaffirmed their commitment to reducing deforestation and finding ways to reconcile economic prosperity with environmental protection.
Activists called that declaration a significant first step in joint efforts to fight the climate crisis but voiced frustration at its failure to mention the phasing out of fossil fuel exploration in the Amazon or include a common commitment to halting deforestation by 2030.
The three countries, home to about half of the world’s tropical rainforest into the Amazon, Congo basin and Borneo and Sumatra, agreed to work together in talks around carbon markets and finance for conservation.
“We’re going to really fight to expel the narco-traffickers and gun-runners and organized crime from the forests of this country,” Lula said, as federal police announced they had destroyed dozens of gold-mining dredges in the remote jungle region where British journalist Dom Phillips was murdered last year with the Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira.
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Tldr
Nature doesn’t need money but men need money to compensate them for doing things.
Another way to protect the rainforest is to stop supporting the main driver of deforestation, the animal industry. https://ourworldindata.org/what-are-drivers-deforestation
