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Absolute madness. Do you realize how much of humanity, and the biomes we rely on, are dependent on the Amazon? And even it were a good idea on balance we have no idea of the ripple effects and externalities. How about we just focus on stopping the changes we’re already causing and get to an equilibrium state with our planet first?

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>stopping the changes we’re already causing

That ship sailed when the industrial revolution started. We - as a planet - industrialised, and the cost is a change in climate. Billions of people are catching up with what Europe kickstarted, and nothing's going to change that.

The equilibrium is going to be thinking about how the future world may look, and adapting our terrain and lifestyles to match it. The Sahara is the perfect test bed for this.

> That ship sailed when the industrial revolution started

According to this[0] at least, the main deforestation cause is cattle ranching and palm oil production. Not exactly activities caused by industrialisation.

[0] https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145988/tracking-ama...

I said stopping, not reversing

Don't worry, we'll cut down enough of the Amazon that it'll collapse, long, long before we green the Sahara enough to hurt the rainforest :)

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