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Re:Amazon deforestation accelerating to unrecoverable 'tippi... by gdubs on Thursday July 25, 2019 @04:38PM (#20529432)
If carbon was priced to reflect its negative externalities the Amazon [Rain Forest] wouldn’t have to generate money because clearing it for agriculture would be prohibitively expensive.
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Re:Amazon deforestation accelerating to unrecoverable 'tippi... by rlpb on Thursday July 25, 2019 @04:54PM (#20529596)
Perhaps the rest of the world should be sending money to the rainforest areas to represent the value to the world climate that they provide.
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Re:Amazon deforestation accelerating to unrecoverable 'tippi... by gdubs on Thursday July 25, 2019 @05:04PM (#20529692)
Absolutely; pay a dividend to people that comes out of the revenue of the carbon tax.
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Re:Amazon deforestation accelerating to unrecoverable 'tippi... by riffraff on Thursday July 25, 2019 @05:56PM (#20530193)
I'd imagine people wouldn't really pay for a permit to cut trees, the forest would just accidentally get burned or something like that.

If we'd make it not economically useful to burn it down, because agricultural products were less profitable, that would work, probably.

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