The documentary "Surviving Progress" has a part that covers the situation in the Amazon. This is an extract of it.
Brazilian Amazon lost 18 trees per second in 2021
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How would one model such a thing? The carbon sink is not material. What value do you place on the biodiversity and unique species of plants and animals that live there? At some point people need to just recognize and protect intangibles.
Let's wait for a little bit longer till we exploit ours fully. We can then U-turn and start /exporting/ the /conserve and protect/ mentality aggressively /s
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#13If we really care about what happens in Brazil we should offer economically viable solutions rather than pointing fingers and accusing them of doing something that we did in the past for a long time.
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#14Unless you live there, there is nothing you can do about it. Nothing to hack, no news.
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Tell me how well preserved your forests are.
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my main man, Brazil feeds a lot of people outside its borders. I am not fan of Brazilian agriculture and its intense practices. If you live in USA, Brazil is a competitor albeit a dinged one, but if you go on sanctioning countries that provide food and fertilizer around the world, people are going to die and nations are going to collapse in matter of months not years.
Be careful what you wish for, it can come true.
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#17If we really care about what happens in Brazil we should offer economically viable solutions rather than pointing fingers and accusing them of doing something that we did in the past for a long time.
Politicians don't care about long-term problems. This is what we should fix.
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How can I report this comment? I find it offensive.
> How do I flag a comment?
> Click on its timestamp to go to its page, then click the 'flag' link at the top. There's a small karma threshold before flag links appear.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
The threshold is supposedly 31 karma[0] so you should already be allowed to do it.
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#19If we really care about what happens in Brazil we should offer economically viable solutions rather than pointing fingers and accusing them of doing something that we did in the past for a long time.
This of course applies to all environmental issues, both foreign and domestic. There would be a lot more partnership and a lot less animosity if we universally adhered to your notion. We might actually get something done!
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#20If we really care about what happens in Brazil we should offer economically viable solutions rather than pointing fingers and accusing them of doing something that we did in the past for a long time.
Agree. Imagine outsiders telling you that half your country is untouchable. I wonder if some future carbon credit system could pay them for the carbon sequestration that the Brazilian Amazon provides.