Preventing them from fucking it up for pennies. A planet is worth more than whatever they can get from cutting down those trees. I believe in property rights, but fuck property rights when externalities are so huge that they can put the whole world in a dire situation. Property and sovereignty are a man-made concept, they can be undone as quickly as they were done. What matters is that the planet lives.

But wouldn't it be less destructive to simply pay Brazil a large amount of money for that?

A war would probably just damage the forest anyway.

I wonder if we’ll cross a line and realize that Brazil’s leaders were proving their deliberation that military action would result in government-ordered destruction.

Is it truly “theirs” when the entire world depends on it? They are squandering it by giving it away to global corporations like JBS (massive meat corporation that extends beyond Brazil and has bought up a shit ton of large meat processing plants/farms across the globe including the US).

Also, the native people that live in the Amazon are at threat too, but nobody is listening to them. They do not have the resources to standup to the Brazilian government that continues to ignore them and continues to give away their land to corporate interests.

If the rest of the world depends on it, then that sounds like a great reason for the rest of the world to pay a large sum of money to Brazil, in exchange for it's services.

That would certainly be cheaper than a war, which would probably just cause a large amount of damage to the forest anyway.

How about the global community paying Brazil to keep it untouched.

Yes it is theirs even if the world depends on it.

Summarized: Yes

The rest of the world burned its own forests. Let Brazil burn its in peace.

Or pay to keep it. I don't care, but this neo-colonialism infuriates L. Americans who witness a steady stream of Western countries come in and destroy their environment

Sounds like it, before it was for oil and fertile lands. Now we will see it for water and CO2.

That would be a novel idea.