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To be fair, if the US can’t make the guarantee that some wannabe dictator will slip into power after the next election cycle, who can?
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The US is just asking to be the most influential country in the world, nothing to fear!
If we want them to stop developing the rainforest for economic reasons, then we need to give them an alternative. The fact is, the whole world needs the Amazon as a carbon sink. It seems like a worthy trade to me. They’re helping all of us, and if they ever stop, the rest of the world can just cut the funding.
It’s not like the rich countries are self-evidently sober and stable in their politics and climate impacts. The richest one just had their own wannabe fascist and has both been responsible for a large part of emissions and rarely met their climate goals.
There are many arguments to be made here but this isn’t one. The money can have conditions attached to it. For example, give an amount now and agree to some target being reached within 6 months and so on.
I think it makes sense though. Developing countries need to use their own resources to develop, but richer countries are guilt-tripping them not to without providing any alternatives, and they need these countries for the carbon credits 😬
Another way to protect the rainforest is to stop supporting the main driver of deforestation, the animal industry. https://ourworldindata.org/what-are-drivers-deforestation
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Tldr
Why does the this life feel like a southpark episode? And what is the safeword? I want out!
Shit nature, me too
Nature doesn’t need money but men need money to compensate them for doing things.
