(Yesterday, he said the Amazon should be monetized. With no other business plan besides a vague desire for increased ecotourism, the fires are the first step towards monetization.)
Mind sharing the source?
> “The fact is that laws and regulations that were enacted and used for the past 10 or 20 years were too restrictive to the development of Amazon areas. That is why people go over to the illegal activities, to the criminal activities, because they don’t have a space to do something within the law,” Ricardo Salles said in an interview with the Financial Times.
Brazil was a great project called the Amazon Fund. It would improve the lives of the people of the region, without destroying the forest. The fund was supported by Norway and German. The far-right government didn't like that money were not destined to the big agro-business and is closing it. Literally throwing money away.
Bolsonaro is unhappy with one such arrangement, covering a much smaller area: visitors pay a $50 fee, collected by the federal government, to enter the archipelago of Fernando de Noronha for a 10 day stay. He wants to the abolish the fee.
Given his general outlook on taxes, I don't see how tourism could fund preservation, except for increasing its scale to a predatory level.
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/cotidiano/2019/07/taxa-de-fern... (in Portuguese)
I heard a quote a couple days ago that was along the libes of: A flight from NY to LA generates as much emissions as a person does all year.
But it wasn't clear to me if that the entire jet or one travel's slice of the jet; vs what they expend otherwise.
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/23/753836508/why-norway-and-germ...