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My understanding is that it's the current administration that's the one demanding payment from the world in return for forgoing the economic growth that might be realized by deforestation.

Considering that the Amazon is pretty essential for the global environment, this strikes me as an aggressively reasonable approach.

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My understanding is that deforestation cannot be justified by potential economic growth.

And my understanding is that the entire world would be a better place if we could all hold hands and sing kumbaya.

These are fanciful ideals, but where the rubber meets the road, there are real tradeoffs with real consequences. The best we can do is make sure that we apply incentives to ensure that people do the "right" thing.

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