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> there should be some compensation given under the form of a tax to keep the forest alive, I don't think that would be ecological blackmail at all.

Norway has already been providing Brazil financial assistance linked to Amazon forest preservation since 2008, and is now reacting to the current events:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/22/norway-i...

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Norway provides 1 billion, the soy market alone is 27 billion, not much of an incentive. A lot more countries would have to provide a lot more money for this to work.

They don't seem to understand that without the rainforest they would be trying to plant stuff in a desert. The whole economic aspect is moot, the forest provides the rain to plant so they burn deforest to plant more. But agribusiness doesn't want to hear it.

It was the beginning, but our extreme right president doesn't like it because it gives money to NGO. For him all NGOs are communist.

https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/scienceandhea...

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