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Can we create a nonprofit to do this for the Amazon rainforest?

I remember a documentary about a guy who did this, but came back next year to find they'd logged it anyway. Turns out you have to actualy enforce the law or it'll get broken! In the end he paid the guy who was logging his land to guard it anyway, the guy was dirt poor and just looking out for his family.

The current leader of Brazil is known as the Trump of South America. He's actively encouraging illegal logging in the rainforest, and the rate at which the Amazon is being clear cut is accelerating rapidly.

If ever there was a good case for the use of pre-emptive military force, it's this clown; his actions are directly destabilizing the world economy and will lead to trillions of dollars of damage / countless lives lost.

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